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In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those models with national survey results, demonstrating the demand for and benefits of LSP instruction. 

With ten original research-based chapters, this volume will be of interest to high school and university language educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Figures
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of Tables
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction: LSP Studies and the Creation of Translingual and Transcultural Competence
  2. Mary K. Long
  3. pp. 15-26
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  1. 1 New Directions in LSP Research in US Higher Education
  2. Lourdes Sánchez- López, Mary K. Long, and Barbara A. Lafford
  3. pp. 27-48
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  1. PART I New Directions in LSP Curriculum Development
  2. pp. 49-50
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  1. 2 Developing and Implementing LSP Curricula at the K-12 Level
  2. Mary Risner, Melissa Swarr, Cristin Bleess, and Janet Graham
  3. pp. 51-68
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  1. 3 Preparing Students for the Workplace: Heritage Learners’ Experiences in Professional Community Internships
  2. Carmen King de Ramírez
  3. pp. 69-86
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  1. 4 Developing Intercultural Competence and Leadership through LSP Curricula
  2. LeAnn Derby, Jean W. LeLoup, James Rasmussen, and Ismênia Sales de Souza
  3. pp. 87-100
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  1. 5 Developing a More Efficient Conversation Paradigm for Learning Foreign Languages: Lessons on Asking and Answering Questions in an LSP Context
  2. Robert A. Quinn
  3. pp. 101-114
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  1. 6 Integrating Project-Based Learning into English for Specific-Purposes Classrooms: A Case Study of Engineering
  2. Tatiana Nekrasova- Beker and Anthony Becker
  3. pp. 115-140
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  1. PART II Rethinking Instructor Roles
  2. pp. 141-142
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  1. 7 The Instructor’s and Learner’s Roles in Learning Arabic for Specific Purposes
  2. El-Hussein Aly
  3. pp. 143-156
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  1. 8 LSP Educators as Informal Career Counselors
  2. Annie Abbott
  3. pp. 157-168
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  1. PART III Exploring Workplace Realities
  2. pp. 169-170
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  1. 9 Court Interpretation of an Indigenous Language: The Experiences of an Unexpected LSP Participant
  2. Mary Jill Brody
  3. pp. 171-182
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  1. 10 Señor Google and Spanish Workplace Information Practices: Information Literacy in a Multilingual World
  2. Alison Hicks
  3. pp. 183-200
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  1. Conclusion: LSP Studies and the Future of Higher Education
  2. Mary K. Long
  3. pp. 201-204
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 205-208
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 209-214
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