Looking From the Past to the Future in ESP Through a Corpus-Based Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Journal Titles

利用語料庫分析English for Specific Purposes期刊內之文章標題以探討專業英語之過去與未來發展

Laurence Anthony

《英語教學期刊》 40卷4期 (2016/12) Pp. 91-107

https://doi.org/10.6330/ETL.2016.40.4.04

摘要

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has played an influential role in developing theory and practice in English language teaching and learning for over 50 years. In this study, a corpus-based approach was adopted to analyze all research article titles appearing in the English for Specific Purposes journal to gain new insights on the major trends that have informed ESP research and practice in the past, and suggest directions for the future of the field. Results from the analysis support many of the trends in ESP described in previous research studies, including a growth in corpus-based ESP research and research on business English. However, other trends are also apparent, including a continued interest in traditional areas of ESP such as needs analysis and scientific/engineering English that date back to the earliest days of ESP. The results suggest that traditional areas of ESP will continue to be of interest in the future, but other areas, such as vocabulary, are likely to grow in importance.

關鍵字

research article titles ； FireAnt ； data visualization

並列摘要

過去五十年來，專業英語(簡稱ESP)對於英語教學與學習的發展扮演極具影響力的角色。本研究旨在分析專業英語學術研究及應用之歷史及未來發展。本研究採用語料庫方式，分析English for Specific Purposes 期刊內所刊登之文章標題，以瞭解專業英語研究未來之發展趨勢，結果發現符合許多先前研究所指出的趨勢，包括結合語料庫的專業英語研究以及商業英語相關研究日益增多。然而，本研究仍發現傳統專業英語之研究(例如早期專業英語所探討的需求分析、科學英語及工程英語)仍持續受到關注。除了傳統專業英語領域之相關研究將持續受關注外，字彙之相關研究也會逐漸受到重視。

並列關鍵字

學術研究文章標題 ； 火蟻語料庫 ； 資料視覺化

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