Increased work connectivity and study mobility over national boundaries in recent decades has led to a shift in the kind of English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction implemented in many educational institutions. Instruction to develop learners’ general English language proficiency may appear as a time-consuming and abstract endeavour. Instead, many institutions implement English for Specific Purposes (ESP), including English for Academic Purposes (EAP) type instruction. In ESP, the aim is to help students develop the specialized academic and work-related linguistic registers they need to function in target settings where English is used as a medium of instruction or in businesses and workplace communication. A great deal of ESP research has now been conducted to build linguistic descriptions of specialized registers. Rather less research has focused on the learning of such specialized registers. This article identifies areas for a research agenda to develop an understanding of learning a specialized register. It sets out two sites for enquiry, namely, learning in a target workplace or disciplinary study setting and learning in instructed ESP, and four topics for enquiry, namely, processes of learning, conditions for learning, learning trajectories, and transfer of learning. Example tasks are suggested for research into learning in target settings.

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学习专业语域：特定用途英语研究议程

近几十年来，跨国界工作连通性和学习流动性的增强导致许多教育机构实施的英语作为第二语言 (ESL) 教学方式发生了转变。培养学习者一般英语语言能力的教学可能看起来是一项耗时且抽象的工作。相反，许多机构实施特定目的英语 (ESP)，包括学术目的英语 (EAP) 类型的教学。 ESP 的目标是帮助学生发展他们所需的专业学术和与工作相关的语言语域，以便在使用英语作为教学媒介或在商业和工作场所沟通的目标环境中发挥作用。现在已经进行了大量的 ESP 研究来建立专门语域的语言描述。很少有研究关注这种专门语域的学习。本文确定了研究议程的领域，以加深对学习专业语域的理解。它设置了两个探究点，即在目标工作场所或学科学习环境中学习和在指导性ESP中学习，以及四个探究主题，即学习过程、学习条件、学习轨迹和学习迁移。建议用于研究目标设置中的学习的示例任务。