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Strevens y McIntosh
Strevens and McIntosh wrote the book “the linguistic Sciences and Language teaching” -
Commercial English
Howatt argues that the need for commercial English, and other people led to a focus on business English in early and in the actual textbooks on “commercial English” -
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ESP
in the late 1970 and early 1980 there was a periods of consolidation in ESP -
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Grammatic
From the mid-1970’s into the 1980’s the focus switched more and more to spoken interaction based first on a grammatical and then gradually a more functional construct. Material were based on functions such Greetings, making deductions -
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Grammar and vocabulary
In 1988 Ewer and Hughes- Daves reprinted a book focused on the grammar and vocabulary of scientific and technical English using what Swales said in 1971-1972 -
Business English
One landmark in the development of Business English materials was “The Bellcrest File”, a video based course book published en -
ESP work
Jordan and Mackay concentrated to establish the need and credentials for ESP work and many articles -
ESP aproach
Foley provides concrete evidence for the validity of the ESP approach -
Language of Presentations
A new video curse, Visitor: the Language of Presentations published by Howe en 1984, précised the language of presentations but didn’t not exploit features such body language -
Inglés con fines especificos
The influence is not all in one direction ESP research is beginning to have its influence in other disciplines -
Swales
ESP was given its initial impetus by work in the area of register analysis which looked at the grammar of scientific and technical writing, and pointed to certains areas of priority for teaching and materials production -
Bates and Dudley
Bates and Dudley Evan’s editions are examples or earlier approaches to ESP -
English for Specific Purposes
ESP is capable of drawing on disciplines outside Applied Linguistics “English for Specific Purposes" -
Dudley and St. Jhon's model
Jhons and Dudley-Evans Presents a view of the state ESP in the middle of the 1900’s -
English for Specific Purposes
Tom and Alan's present their book it has extensive statements about ESP. The journal English for Specific Purposes ranged from to analysis to classroom descriptions -
Effective Presentations
The book “Effective Presentations” published by Comfort and Utley en 1995 exploit features such a boy language
