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标题：LANGUAGE FOR TEACHING PURPOSES: A THIRD SPACE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE
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作者：MAHA ALHABBASH ; SADIQ ABDULWAHED AHMED ISMAIL
期刊名称：ESP Today
电子版ISSN：2334-9050
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：294-298
语种：English
出版社：Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade
摘要：Emma Riordan starts her book with a clear introduction showing the rationale of the research generated from her experience as an instructor of students that were trained as post-primary English teachers at a German university. Her students were “anxious about the lacunae in their language proficiency” (p. 2) and desired extra language classes to improve their English. Therefore,what is notable in the introduction is the reflexive illustration from the author’s experience and the transfer of such experience to the author’s context. Thus,the notion of the language needs of non-native speaker language teachers (NNSLTs) is outlined in this book with a look at the importance of teachers’ language as a source of input for managing and supporting classroom discourse within foreign language (FL) learning contexts. The central argument in this book is that the language that is generally used by teachers in the classroom is different from the specific language used in classes of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). For example,the reconceptualization of English as a specialized subset of language skills for teaching and preparing for lessons builds the concept of English for Teaching Purposes (ETP) as a flourished form of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for classroom discourse (Freeman,Katz,Garcia Gomez,& Burns,2015).