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| Title: |
Events in context: A systems approach to modelling communication needs |
| Author: |
Boswood, Tim |
| Appeared in: |
Language culture and curriculum |
| Paging: | Volume 5 (1992) nr. 2 pages 117-140 |
| Year: |
1992 |
| Contents: |
Curriculum planners agree on the importance of needs analysis yet few institutions take adequate steps to systematically maintain the information that is accumulated through formal and informal needs analysis enquiries; such data is highly subject to erosion over time, resulting in wasted resources and the loss of essential expertise. This paper conceives this problem in management information terms and proposes that needs analysis data should be stored in databases which allow easy on-line access by course stakeholders. Implementing information systems of this kind requires development of a model of communication needs capable of including data items relating to the full range of cultural, communicative and linguistic aspects of behaviour in the target situation, as well as the views of course stakeholders concerning course content and methodology. The paper contains a detailed outline of such a model, based on the ethnographic analysis of communication within discourse communities in terms of communicative events. The combination of ethnolinguistic insights with the genre and text analysis techniques typical of mainstream ESP (English for Specific Purposes) allows the placement of texts in their full context of ethnic, organisational and professional cultures. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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