Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical guide to research in ESP. It’s for novice researchers, graduate students and for ESP practitioners who want to do some research themselves. The author takes the reader step by step through the stages of research, starting with choosing a topic and reviewing the literature through to writing up research findings. Examples are taken from academic journals and dissertations to highlight aspects of the research process.

The book covers the following areas:

  • developing a research project
  • research design
  • theoretical approaches to ESP research
  • choosing a research topic
  • quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods in ESP research
  • validity, reliability and ethics
  • writing up research in ESP

The book includes recommendations for further reading and tasks. There is also a glossary and a chapter providing advice, templates and links to useful research sources.

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is essential reading for anyone wanting to conduct research in ESP.

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Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical guide to research in ESP. It’s for novice researchers, graduate students and for ESP practitioners who want to do some research themselves. The author takes the reader step by step through the stages of research, starting with choosing a topic and reviewing the literature through to writing up research findings. Examples are taken from academic journals and dissertations to highlight aspects of the research process.

The book covers the following areas:

  • developing a research project
  • research design
  • theoretical approaches to ESP research
  • choosing a research topic
  • quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods in ESP research
  • validity, reliability and ethics
  • writing up research in ESP

The book includes recommendations for further reading and tasks. There is also a glossary and a chapter providing advice, templates and links to useful research sources.

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is essential reading for anyone wanting to conduct research in ESP.

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Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

by Lindy Woodrow
Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

by Lindy Woodrow

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Overview

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical guide to research in ESP. It’s for novice researchers, graduate students and for ESP practitioners who want to do some research themselves. The author takes the reader step by step through the stages of research, starting with choosing a topic and reviewing the literature through to writing up research findings. Examples are taken from academic journals and dissertations to highlight aspects of the research process.

The book covers the following areas:

  • developing a research project
  • research design
  • theoretical approaches to ESP research
  • choosing a research topic
  • quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods in ESP research
  • validity, reliability and ethics
  • writing up research in ESP

The book includes recommendations for further reading and tasks. There is also a glossary and a chapter providing advice, templates and links to useful research sources.

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is essential reading for anyone wanting to conduct research in ESP.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000582598
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/30/2022
Series: Routledge Introductions to English for Specific Purposes
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 262
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Lindy Woodrow is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes (Routledge, 2017) and Doing a Master’s Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2020).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Developing a research project.

Chapter 3 Theoretical approaches to ESP research

Chapter 4 Researchable topics in ESP

Chapter 5 ESP research design: methodological approaches

Chapter 6 Quantitative methods in ESP

Chapter 7 Qualitative methods in ESP research

Chapter 8 Validity, reliability and ethics in ESP research

Chapter 9 Using research findings

Chapter 10 Resources for developing and conducting research in ESP

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