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Chapter 2 focused on a key procedure in ESP course development, needs analysis. However, needs analysis itself does not provide information on specialist discourse and before teachers and course developers start planning the curriculum, they often need to obtain descriptions of discourse (communication and language use) identified in the needs analysis. This leads to the topic of the present chapter, investigations of specialist discourse.
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Basturkmen, H. (2010). Investigating Specialist Discourse. In: Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230290518_3
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