Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction to the Handbook 1 1 The History of English for Specific Purposes Research 5 Ann M. Johns Part I ESP and Language Skills 31 2 ESP and Speaking 35 Christine B. Feak 3 ESP and Listening 55 Christine C. M. Goh 4 ESP and Reading 77 Alan Hirvela 5 ESP and Writing 95 Ken Hyland 6 Vocabulary and ESP 115 Averil Coxhead Part II Areas of ESP Research 133 7 English for Academic Purposes 137 Maggie Charles 8 English for Science and Technology 155 Jean Parkinson 9 English in the Workplace 175 Meredith Marra 10 Business English 193 Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Zuocheng Zhang 11 Legal English 213 Jill Northcott 12 Aviation English 227 Carol Lynn Moder 13 English for Medical Purposes 243 Gibson Ferguson 14 English for Nursing 263 Susan Bosher 15 Thesis and Dissertation Writing 283 Paul Thompson 16 English for Research Publication Purposes 301 John Flowerdew Part III ESP and Pedagogy 323 17 Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP 325 Lynne Flowerdew 18 Genre and English for Specific Purposes 347 Brian Paltridge 19 ESP and Assessment 367 Dan Douglas 20 Technology and ESP 385 Joel Bloch Part IV Research Perspectives and Methodologies in ESP Research 403 21 ESP and Corpus Studies 407 Hilary Nesi 22 ESP and Intercultural Rhetoric 427 Ulla Connor And William Rozycki 23 English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca 445 Catherine Nickerson 24 Critical Perspectives on ESP 461 Sue Starfield 25 Gender and Race in ESP Research 481 Ryuko Kubota And Liz T. Chiang 26 Ethnographic Approaches to ESP Research 501 Dacia Dressen-Hammouda 27 Multimodality and ESP Research 519 Paul Prior Conclusion to the Handbook 28 The Future of ESP Research: Resources for Access and Choice 535 Diane Belcher Index 553.