The document discusses trends in ESP teacher training programs in the United States. It notes that while some universities offer individual courses related to ESP, full ESP training programs are limited. It provides examples of some courses offered at various institutions. The document also discusses practical research approaches for ESP instructors, including genre analysis and corpus linguistics. It provides examples of how these research methods have been applied. Finally, it discusses adapting materials for ESP courses and harnessing online resources to develop materials.

1. Current Trends
ESP in the U.S.

2. ESP Teacher Training
• What is done in your teacher training programs?
o What are your core classes in M.A. TEFL programs?

3. ESP Teacher Training in U.S.
Limited Opportunities
• Individual courses • Programs
o Language analysis o San Jose State’s
o Discourse analysis MATESOL with an
o ESP Methodology Emphasis in ESP
• “on hold”
• Independent study
courses • Summer Institutes
o Insufficient interest for
o IUPUI
courses “on the books”
• Last offered in 2010
• E-Courses
o For teacher training
outside the U.S.

4. Courses Offered
at U.S. Institutions
• ESP • Computational
o Immaculata University Linguistics
(PA)
o Georgetown (D.C.)
o IUPUI (IN)
o U Michigan (PhD only)
• Discourse Analysis
o Columbia (NY) • CBI
o U Michigan (PhD only) o U Georgia
o U Indiana
• Language Analysis
o SIT (VT)
o American U (D.C.)

5. What can we do?
• As ESP-IS and ESP SIGs
o Provide resources
o Provide information on need for courses
• What do M.A. TEFL/TESL/applied linguistics graduates
do?
• Where are most ESP courses taught?
o What else can we do?

6. Practical Research
• What has helped me as an ESP instructor?
o Genre Analysis
• What do typical texts look like?
• How are they organized?
• What language is used? What verb tenses?
o Corpus Linguistics
• What does a large body of material show me about the
actual language?
• How can my students use corpora?

7. Genre Analysis in Practice
• Moves in legal case notes
o Feak, Reinhart, Sinsheimer
• Statutory Analysis
o Bhatia

8. Case Note Moves
Feak, et al. 2000

9. Move 2 - Language
Feak, et al. 2000

10. Move 3b
Feak, et al. 2000

11. Statutory Interpretation
(using Bhatia’s approach)
Lee, Hall, Barone, 2007

12. Corpus Linguistics
Practical Applications
• Corpus Searches
o Corpus of Contemporary American English
(COCA)
• http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
o What do you think?
• Filed an application __________
• Indict _________

13. COCA --filed an application
1/2. Filed an application with
3. filed an application for
4. filed an application under

14. COCA Search - indict
Indict + noun (can include article/modifier)
1. indict three Delay associates
4. indict the women
10. did not indict Hardy
16. will indict a ham sandwich

15. Materials Adaptation

16. Design based on Needs of Multiple Parties
personal information
about learners
professional language
information information about
about leaners target situations
environmental situation
how to communicate
in the learners’ lacks, needs, wants
target situation
administration employers’
requirements requirements
adapted from Dudley-Evans & St John, 1998

17. Adapting Materials
• No need to start from scratch
o Swales
• Choose chapters and language issues
o Many publishers will give permission for you to use 1-2
chapters for a course at no cost if you ask
• Bring in additional materials as needed
o General English materials are sometimes useful
• Take advantage of the Internet
o COCA
o Academic Word List

18. Materials Development

19. Harnessing the Web
• Find appropriate online resources
o ESP Resource Blog from Kevin Knight, current president of ESP-IS
• http://blog.tesol.org/blog/global-resources-and-leadership-
development-in-esp
o Using the WWW Effectively
• http://hrd.apecwiki.org/index.php/Education_Beyond_the_Cl
assroom:_Using_the_World_Wide_Web_Effectively
• Create a wiki
o http://onlinelearning101.pbworks.com
• Go Mobile
o Twitter
o SMS

20. Change is Inevitable
ESP Practitioners must adapt to survive

21. Debra S. Lee
Community Manager, TESOL ESP-IS
E-Instructor, Georgetown Law CLE/Lex Mercator
PhD Candidate, Instructional Technology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
dleetn@gmail.com
Twitter: dleetn