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Download full textJohns, Ann M.; Salmani Nodoushan, M. A. – Online Submission, 2015
This forum paper is based on a friendly and informative interview conducted with Professor Ann M. Johns. In providing answers to the interview questions, Professor Johns suggests that all good teaching is ESP, and also distinguishes between EOP and ESP in that the former entails much more "just in time" learning while the latter may be…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Interviews, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Johns, Ann M. – ESP Journal, 1980
Describes study to determine whether "constellations" of cohesive items occur in letters, reports, and textbooks. Concludes cohesive elements can be identified in each type of discourse but generalizations cannot be made about cohesive features in broad classes of applied and academic English for Business and Economics (EBE) discourse.…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes
Peer reviewedJohns, Ann M.; Dudley-Evans, Tony – TESOL Quarterly, 1991
Details principal approaches to the teaching of English for specific purposes (ESP), emphasizing the international nature and scope of such instruction and diversity of approaches, and predicts that an increasing need for research on the nature of written and spoken discourse will increase the links between ESP and other disciplines. (88…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English for Special Purposes, Interdisciplinary Approach, Second Language Instruction
Johns, Ann M. – 1983
English for specific purposes (ESP) coursebooks compiled by writers in the People's Republic of China are described. Eight textbooks are examined focusing on their common features in terms of reading passages, reliance upon Chinese language, focus upon the Chinese environment, emphasis upon structural grammar, focus upon vocabulary, rhetorical…
Descriptors: Chinese, English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedJohns, Ann M.; Swales, John M. – English for Specific Purposes, 1998
In a dialogic essay, the authors reflect on aspects of their two professional lives in the field of English for special purposes (ESP), discussing their initial reactions to each other as authors, describing how they came to co-edit the present journal, providing personal and selective impressions of each other's careers, and summarizing currently…
Descriptors: Authors, Careers, Educational History, Educational Trends
Johns, Ann M. – 1985
Simplification of reading materials for lower-level English for special purposes (ESP) instruction may make texts comprehensible, but it may not make them much different from texts written 50 years ago. What will make them different is their authenticity, an approach characteristic of ESP, even at the lowest levels. However, authenticity is often…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Introductory Courses, Literature Reviews, Material Development
