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THE EVOLUCION OF ESP idiomas-diferentes…
THE EVOLUCION OF ESP 
The concept of special language Peter Strevens Mclntosh and Strevens Electrical Engineering constituted a specific register different
from that of, say, Biology or of General English
1 The concept of special language: register analysis
What is ESP
the rhetorical structure of scientific texts
would be expected different from that of commercial texts
students to recognize textual patterns and discourse markers mainly by
means of text-diagramming exercises
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2 Beyond the sentence: rhetorical or discourse
analysis
Henry Widdowson in Britain, Louis Trimble, John Lackstrom and Mary Todd-Trimble in the United States
Register analysis had focussed on sentence grammar, but now attention shifted to understanding how sentences were combined in discourse to produce meaning.
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3 Target situation analysis
What it aimed to do was to take the existing knowledge and set it on a more scientific basis, by establishing procedures for relating language analysis more closely to learners' reasons for learning
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needs in terms of communication purposes, communicative setting, the
means of communication, language skills, functions, structures etc. (see
4 Skills and strategies
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5 A learning-centred approach
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Ewer and Latorre's
revealed that there was very little that was distinctive in the sentence grammar of Scientific English beyond a tendency to favour particular forms such as the present simple tense, the passive voice and nominal compounds
making the ESP course more relevant to learners' needs. The aim was to produce a syllabus which gave high priority to the language forms students would meet in their Science studies
hey found that the school textbooks neglected some of the language forms commonly found in Science texts, for example, compound nouns, passives, conditionals, anomalous finites (i.e. modal verbs).