Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/asp.2331>
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DOI: <
10.4000/asp.2331>
Abstract
This paper investigates how research on scientific English built on the study of a diachronic corpus around a specific biological theme (essential fatty acids) can be used as a basis for a Maîtrise training course in ESP. First, the various epistemologic schools are rapidly described to recall the different trends in the conceptual organization of knowledge. We then explain how ESP teachers are consciously or unconsciously confronted with or influenced by the resisting positivist model of knowledge structuring. A definition of the word ‘network’ is proposed, as well as the various registers in which the concept of network can offer a mode of action for ESP teaching: sociological, cognitive, diachronic, epistemological and pedagogical.