Research Article | Open Access
English For Specific Purposes(ESP): Scope and Limitations
Ms. Arpita K. Chauhan,Dr. Manoj Kumar
Pages: 8873-8879
Abstract
English for Specific purposes (ESP) is introduced to meet learners’ need. It is emerged due to the awareness that English for generalpurposes did not meet the learners’expectation.According to Hutchinson & Waters (1987),there are three main reasons for the emergence of ESP.They are the demands of brave new world, arevolution in linguistics and a new focus on learner. The present study is an attempt to draw the attention of linguistics towards new emerging branches of ESP. With the development of science and technology,the number of new businesses, occupations, and professions came into existence
Keywords
ESP, Branch, field, teaching, learning