Tag Archives: English for Specific Purposes

ELT for Video Games: Language and Video Game Careers

Jeff Kuhn
Jeff Kuhn

Hello and welcome to another edition of the TESOL Games and Learning Blog. For video gamers, June is a big month as each year the video game industry hosts the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a 3-day event where the major video game publishers announce their upcoming games. This … Continue reading

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Finding Audiences Beyond the Classroom

Betsy Gilliland
Betsy Gilliland

Why do we write? For my dissertation, I spent a year observing high school English language classes and talking with the students and teachers about writing. One thing that struck me in these interviews was how rarely the students saw … Continue reading

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Professional Written Communication: Positioning Yourself for Maximum Effect

Betsy Gilliland
Betsy Gilliland

This blog post is a guest post by Gerriet Janssen, associate professor at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Last year, when I was a Fulbright Scholar in Chile, I visited Colombia and facilitated several workshops on academic writing for … Continue reading

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ESP Project Leader Profile: Louise Greener

Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight

Hello, ESPers worldwide! In the 49th ESP Project Leader Profile, we travel again to the United Kingdom, this time to meet Louise Greener, and we gain insights into spreading “organizational culture” and “best institutional and pedagogical practices.” Louise was introduced … Continue reading

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ESP Project Leader Profile: Charles Browne

Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight

Hello, ESPers worldwide! This ESP project leader profile features Dr. Charles Browne, who was one of my former supervisors at Sony many years ago. His bio from Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, where he is a professor, includes his work in the area of … Continue reading

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ESP Project Leader Profile: Gina Mikel Petrie

Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight

Hello, ESPers worldwide! In this ESP project leader profile, we meet Dr. Gina Mikel Petrie from Eastern Washington University, and she shares with us her ESP work in Nicaragua. I was introduced to Gina by another ESP project leader, Mike … Continue reading

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ESP Project Leader Profile: Michael Ennis

Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight

Hello, ESPers worldwide! In this ESP project leader profile, we meet Michael Ennis, a leader in Italy who shares his story of launching a TESOL group that has held several ESP conferences. Please see Mike’s bio: Michael Ennis is the … Continue reading

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ESP Project Leader Profile: Elise Geither

Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight

Hello, ESPers worldwide! The 42nd ESP project leader profile features Elise Geither, who gave a presentation at TESOL 2018 in Chicago in an ESP-EFL (English as a foreign language) intersection session. In addition to being an ESP practitioner, Elise is … Continue reading

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