Current Developments in English for Academic, Specific and Occupational Purposes Current Developments in English for Academic, Specific and Occupational Purposes is a collection of papers which reflect the diversity and multiplicity of strands that international EAP and ESP practitioners of the 21st century are engaged in across all the continents. Most of the papers in the book are contributions of the members of the ESP SIG at IATEFL (although there are a couple of 'guest' submissions), and were presented at the IATEFL Conferences in Cardiff (2005) and Harrogate (2006). The IATEFL ESP SIG hopes that the book proves a useful compendium for teachers, lecturers, teacher trainers, trainees and students of TESOL, ELT or Applied Linguistics. The ESP Special Interest Group (SIG) is one of the fourteen SIGs at IATEFL, and its main focus is on English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes and English for Occupational/Professional Purposes. The main objective of the SIG is to disseminate good practice in ESP (as well as in EAP and EO/PP) through its membership and to promote models of excellence in ESP to ELT professionals internationally through workshops, seminars and conferences and through publishing the output in our Journal and in leading international ELT journals and periodicals. More information about the ESP SIG can be found on http://espsig.iatefl.org/ For other ESP SIG titles published by Garnet Education, please visit the Journals and Academic Papers section. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Enabling interactive teaching and learning methods in EAP classes and assessing some students' views of effective learning Chapter 2: United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Narrative patterns, language choice and pedagogical implications Chapter 3: Towards understanding the root causes of plagiarism among non-native speaker students Chapter 4: Coaching in academic writing Chapter 5: Ten steps to better academic writing Chapter 6: English language teaching and policy-makers of Bangladesh Chapter 7: Objectives, realities and outcomes: Communication skills in English in Kenyan universities Chapter 8: 'Sexing up' ESP through 'global' simulations Chapter 9: Socio-cultural attitudes towards EFL and EAP in Pakistan Chapter 10: Can Can-Dos do anything to improve tertiary level ESP curricula? Chapter 11: Not a teacher but a Consciousness Raiser? Chapter 12: Dialoguing with students about their marked work Chapter 13: Using vocabulary journals to facilitate academic vocabulary learning Chapter 14: An analysis of undergraduate essay and examinations questions Chapter 15: Developing academic and technical writing skills for medical purposes Chapter 16: No word is an island: Issues related to IT vocabulary expansion and acquisition Chapter 17: Developing students' academic skills in a Russian context Chapter 18: Using stories with young learners Chapter 19: ESP - Creator of a new reality Chapter 20: Second language acquisition and pedagogy: A case study Chapter 21: Teaching reading comprehension to large classes using African literature in English Chapter 22: Linguistic analysis of freshman English compositions