Languages for Specific Purposes*: Pedagogy

The principal tenet of specific purposes language teaching (LSP) is that of ‘specificity’: each pedagogical situation and each group of learners is considered to be new and different. Ideally, a unique curriculum and collection of classroom activities is designed for each group of students and teachers in every new context. No single approach, no new or old orthodoxy, is appropriate for all pedagogical situations. Thus, central to LSP pedagogy must be the determination of the unique characteristics of each teaching/learning situation, and the exploitation of these characteristics for development of syllabuses, of classroom activities, and of evaluation and assessment.