Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes (Routledge Introductions to English for Specific Purposes) by James Dean Brown

Routledge Introductions to English for Specific Purposes

by James Dean Brown

Needs Analysis is central to curriculum development and "Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes" is essential reading for any pre-service and in-service teachers and students studying this topic.Clear and accessible, this book takes a jargon-free approach to introducing this area and provides a step-by-step guide to such issues needs analysis in English for specific purposesHow to focus ESP needs analysisSelecting and creating ESP needs analysis data collection proceduresCollecting ESP needs analysis dataAnalyzing needs analysis dataInterpreting needs analysis resultsDetermining student learning outcomesEvaluating and reporting on the ESP needs analysis projectIncoporating personal reflection exercises, tasks, and examples from a range of contexts, "Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes "is a must-read for students studying this course on MAs in English for Specifics Purposes; Applied Linguistics; TESOL and Education.

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First published January 22, 2016

About the author

James Dean Brown, Professor on the graduate faculty of the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializes in the areas of language testing, curriculum design, program evaluation, and research methods.

Professor Brown has taught extensively in France, the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States (in California, Florida, and Hawaii). He has served on the editorial boards of the TESOL Quarterly, JALT Journal, and Language Testing as well as on the TOEFL Research Committee, TESOL Advisory Committee on Research, and the Executive Board of TESOL.

In addition to numerous book chapters and articles in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Matters, Language Learning, Language Testing, Modern Language Journal, JALT Journal, The Language Teacher, System, and RELC Journal, Professor Brown has published a number of books, among them: Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A teacher's guide to statistics and research design (Cambridge, 1988; also in a Chinese version, 2001, People’s Education Press); The Elements of Language Curriculum: A systematic approach to program development (Heinle & Heinle, 1995); Language Testing in Japan (with Yamashita, JALT, 1995); Testing in Language Programs (Prentice-Hall, 1996; also translated into Japanese in 1999 by Wada, Taishukan Shoten Publishers); New Ways of Classroom Assessment (TESOL, 1998); Using Surveys in Language Programs (Cambridge, 2001); and Criterion-Referenced Language Testing (with Hudson, Cambridge, 2002).