Sponsored by
the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication,
the English for Academic Purposes Program,
and the Department of English in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI,
in partnership with INTESOL

Diane Belcher, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, is current co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and former co-editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes. She also co-edits the teacher reference series Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers and has guest-edited the Journal of Second Language Writing three times. She is the author of a number of articles on advanced academic literacy. Her more recent edited books include The Oral-Literate Connection and English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice.

Lecture - "An Introduction to Language for Specific Purposes"
Friday, November 12, 4:00 pm in IUPUI's Campus Center Room 409
This presentation will introduce language for specific purposes (LSP), an approach to language teaching tailored to the specific needs of learners. Three hallmarks of LSP (and more specifically ESP, or English for specific purposes) will be focused on: needs analysis, needs-responsive materials and methods, and needs-knowledgeable instructors. How recent developments in research, theory, and technology, e.g., ethnography, genre theory, computer-assisted language analysis, are helping us better assess and meet language learners’ specific needs will also be discussed.

(Downloadable poster - PDF file)

Light refreshments to follow in IUPUI's Campus Center Room 405.

Parking is available in the adjacent Vermont Parking Garage.

Indiana University & Purdue University Visitors
IUPUI honors parking permits from another Indiana University campus or Purdue campus. Vehicles may park in "A," "B," and "E" lots with "A," "B," and "E" tags.

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