Resumen de Towards awareness of English as a professional language

Tony Wright, Rod Bolitho

• Much recent work on language awareness in teacher‐training programmes has focused quite rightly on teachers’ knowledge about the language they are teaching. The authors’ work (1993, 1994 and 1995) has, by and large, dwelt on the development of methodological approaches to awareness‐raising about language on teachers’ programmes. This paper discusses the potential extension of awareness‐raising techniques to the wider concerns of English as a professional language for teachers. The Appendix to the paper also reports on the issues raised in a workshop which explored the nature and scope of English as a professional language held at the Dublin Conference for Language Awareness (July 1996).