<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Grammar teaching has never belonged to mainstream ESP teaching/ learning practices. However, this apparent lack of concern with grammar in ESP materials runs counter to both subjective and objective needs of ESP learners. The first part of the paper presents students′ views on deficiencies of coursebooks for teaching English for Medical Purposes (EMP) as well as author’s reflective thinking on the needs of medical undergraduates of vocational schools in Poland. It is suggested that some of the deficiencies of the materials might be remedied and the students′ needs better taken care of if explicit teaching of formulaic language is introduced into ESP classroom environment. It is hypothesized that explicit teaching of formulaic language may stimulate grammar development in the long term and foster communicative competence of ESP learners in the short term. Therefore, the second part of the paper proposes pedagogically relavant classification of medical formulaic sequences motivated by the lexicogrammatical features of Medical English. The third part of the paper shows in what way the proposed classification of formulaic sequences might help teachers of medical English design tasks that are conducive to the development of formulaic competence of students of English for Medical Purposes.</p></abstract>

Grammar teaching has never belonged to mainstream ESP teaching/ learning practices. However, this apparent lack of concern with grammar in ESP materials runs counter to both subjective and objective needs of ESP learners. The first part of the paper presents students′ views on deficiencies of coursebooks for teaching English for Medical Purposes (EMP) as well as author’s reflective thinking on the needs of medical undergraduates of vocational schools in Poland. It is suggested that some of the deficiencies of the materials might be remedied and the students′ needs better taken care of if explicit teaching of formulaic language is introduced into ESP classroom environment. It is hypothesized that explicit teaching of formulaic language may stimulate grammar development in the long term and foster communicative competence of ESP learners in the short term. Therefore, the second part of the paper proposes pedagogically relavant classification of medical formulaic sequences motivated by the lexicogrammatical features of Medical English. The third part of the paper shows in what way the proposed classification of formulaic sequences might help teachers of medical English design tasks that are conducive to the development of formulaic competence of students of English for Medical Purposes.

Formulacity in ESP Teaching: A Case of Doing a Balancing Act Between Form and Meaning

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Grammar teaching has never belonged to mainstream ESP teaching/ learning practices. However, this apparent lack of concern with grammar in ESP materials runs...

Formulacity in ESP Teaching: A Case of Doing a Balancing Act Between Form and Meaning

Published Online: Apr 26, 2017

Page range: 89 - 108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0006

Keywords
formulaic sequences, crosscultural formulae, culture-specific formulae, conversational formulae, subject-specific formulae, ESP, English for Medical Purposes (EMP)

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Formulacity in ESP Teaching: A Case of Doing a Balancing Act Between Form and Meaning

Published Online: Apr 26, 2017

Page range: 89 - 108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0006

Keywordsformulaic sequences, crosscultural formulae, culture-specific formulae, conversational formulae, subject-specific formulae, ESP, English for Medical Purposes (EMP)

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
formulaic sequences, crosscultural formulae, culture-specific formulae, conversational formulae, subject-specific formulae, ESP, English for Medical Purposes (EMP)