Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations
From its inception in the early 1960s, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching. ESP is usually concerned with the teaching of English used in academic studies and/or professional activities, especially the teaching of English related wi...
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| description | From its inception in the early 1960s, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching. ESP is usually concerned with the teaching of English used in academic studies and/or professional activities, especially the teaching of English related with Business/Economics, Medicine, and Engineering. As the number of courses and students has grown considerably the original team teaching methodology is being substituted by a more autonomous approach in which both ESP instructors and students have to acquire knowledge of the basic concepts of the field by themselves. This new approach lends support to recent developments in the field of learner’s autonomy, especially those based on Internet (for example, Moodle) that are being promoted in this era of shortages and lack of resources. Within this framework, this article presents Internet dictionaries, especially the so-called free institutional Internet reference works, as adequate tools for using in cognitive situations, i.e., the social situations that arise when users want to gain knowledge about something. In particular, this article describes five lexicographical structures and functionalities of the <em>BusinessDictionary.com</em> that can be used by ESP instructors and students in order to acquire and/or update their business knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b2b1132313bd47f8bbf2681587dcfb0a2022-12-22T02:39:10ZengEdiciones Universidad de SalamancaAula0214-34022012-05-01180577910.14201/88728469Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situationsPedro A. FUERTES-OLIVERA0Universidad de ValladolidFrom its inception in the early 1960s, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching. ESP is usually concerned with the teaching of English used in academic studies and/or professional activities, especially the teaching of English related with Business/Economics, Medicine, and Engineering. As the number of courses and students has grown considerably the original team teaching methodology is being substituted by a more autonomous approach in which both ESP instructors and students have to acquire knowledge of the basic concepts of the field by themselves. This new approach lends support to recent developments in the field of learner’s autonomy, especially those based on Internet (for example, Moodle) that are being promoted in this era of shortages and lack of resources. Within this framework, this article presents Internet dictionaries, especially the so-called free institutional Internet reference works, as adequate tools for using in cognitive situations, i.e., the social situations that arise when users want to gain knowledge about something. In particular, this article describes five lexicographical structures and functionalities of the <em>BusinessDictionary.com</em> that can be used by ESP instructors and students in order to acquire and/or update their business knowledge.https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0214-3402/article/view/8872espdiccionario de internetconocimientoautonomíasituación cognitiva |
| spellingShingle | Pedro A. FUERTES-OLIVERA Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations Aula esp diccionario de internet conocimiento autonomía situación cognitiva |
| title | Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations |
| title_full | Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations |
| title_short | Open-access Internet dictionaries in the ESP teaching/learning process: «businessdictionary.com» in cognitive situations |
| title_sort | open access internet dictionaries in the esp teaching learning process businessdictionary com in cognitive situations |
| topic | esp diccionario de internet conocimiento autonomía situación cognitiva |
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