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Tag Archives: English for Specific Purposes
ELT for Video Games: Language and Video Game Careers
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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Tagged as English for Specific Purposes, ESP, games and learning, gaming, video games
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Finding Audiences Beyond the Classroom
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
Professional Written Communication: Positioning Yourself for Maximum Effect
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
ESP Project Leader Profile: Louise Greener
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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Tagged as English for Specific Purposes, ESP, esp leadership, Kevin Knight, leadership communication
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ESP Project Leader Profile: Charles Browne
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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Tagged as academic leadership, corpus-based ESP, English for Specific Purposes, vocabulary acquisition
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ESP Project Leader Profile: Gina Mikel Petrie
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
ESP Project Leader Profile: Michael Ennis
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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Tagged as academic leadership, collaboration, English for Specific Purposes, leadership, project management
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ESP Project Leader Profile: Elise Geither
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