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  2. Language for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    Language for specific purposes (LSP) has been primarily used to refer to two areas within applied linguistics: One focusing on the needs in education and training; One with a focus on research on language variation across a particular subject field

  3. English for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    ESP is taught in many universities of the world. Many professional associations of teachers of English (e.g., TESOL and IATEFL) have ESP sections. Much attention is devoted to ESP course design. [4] [5] ESP teaching has much in common with English as a foreign or second language and English for academic purposes (EAP).

  4. Genre studies - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic genre studies can be roughly divided into two schools, Systemic Functional Linguistics or "SFL", and English for Specific Purposes or "ESP." SFL scholars believe that language structure is an integral part of a text's social context and function. [ 1 ]

  5. English for Specific Purposes World - Wikipedia

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    English for Specific Purposes World (ESP World, ISSN 1682-3257) is an international online journal containing papers concerning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). There are around four issues published a year. There are 62 issues of the journal online. The Journal is listed in , LINGUIST List, NewJour, Google Scholar.

  6. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    An MA in TESOL may or may not meet individual state requirements for K–12 public school teachers. It is important to determine if a graduate program is designed to prepare teachers for adult education or K–12 education. The MA in TESOL typically includes second-language acquisition theory, linguistics, pedagogy, and an internship.

  7. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English.. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard.

  9. Language documentation - Wikipedia

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    Language description, as a task within linguistics, may be divided into separate areas of specialization: Phonetics, the study of the sounds of human language; Phonology, the study of the sound system of a language; Morphology, the study of the internal structure of words; Syntax, the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences