LSP Teacher Training Summer School

This book is the result of research carried out in partnership with sevenEuropean universities as part of an Erasmus+ project on training teachersof Language for Specifi c Purpose (LSP) in higher education. All universitypartners, i.e. Bordeaux (France), Zagreb (Croatia), Jade (Germany), Cádiz(Spain), Adam Mickiewicz (Poland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Arcola Research(UK), and Bergamo (Italy) carried out surveys and developed a detailedreport showing that in Europe there is very little training for this type ofteaching, and that teachers generally need to be trained in the specifi citiesof the language fi eld they are going to teach. Medical or maritime English,legal Spanish, French for tourism, etc. require both an expert domainknowledge and a grounding in language teaching. Several testimonieshighlight this situation and show the lack of career development prospectsfor LSP teachers at European universities.The members of the Erasmus+ TRAILs project have therefore beeninterested in the specifi c needs of LSP teachers and have been able toupdate the information through several types of surveys. The competencesof LSP teachers were thus identifi ed. Based on this precise inventory, theyare proposing to draw up a complete training programme.A pedagogical approach has been developed: resources, lesson preparation,course design, innovative pedagogical approaches are presented. Theresearch presented in this book goes well beyond the TRAILs project andquestions the training of specialised language teachers. More generally,it highlights the need to provide effective training and professionaldevelopment for LSP teachers and offers a contribution to overcoming theshortcomings of LSP teacher education.