Ethnographic Approaches to ESP Research

Abstract

Qualitative and ethnographic-oriented approaches have since become increasingly accepted as part of English for specific purposes (ESP) research practice, as can be seen in the growing number of studies using such methods, which have been published in the field's major journals. A survey carried out for the purpose of this chapter, which looked at publications in ESP, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and the Journal of Second Language Writing, shows that for each ten-year period since the early 1980s, that number has tripled. The result of the survey helps to investigate the extent to which such qualitative and ethnographic approaches have made their way into ESP research practices.

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