Language for Specific Purpose

Running head: LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE
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TOPIC: LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE
DATE: 17-04-2019

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Topic 2- Discuss why focusing only on vocabulary and jargon in LSP courses is ineffective in
developing overall communicative competence in workplaces.
Introduction
For communicative competence, it is important that several aspects of business discourse are
linked and applied in an organization. Business discourse ensures communication among
employees that can be written or oral in commercial organizations. There are strategic issues that
can be formed when the business works only on vocabulary and jargon in LSP Language for
Specific Purposes course. The business discourse is connected with business contexts and
investigates the importance of written and spoken communication in communicating particularly
in business settings. There are corporate settings that are linked along with the business discourse
and tend to achieve organizational goals along with individual goals. The findings of the study
would ensure the importance of teaching and materials to the employees in terms of developing
overall communicative competence in an organization (Bargiela-Chiappini & Nickerson, 2003).
The types of communication that business organizations use are complex in nature and are not
identical to the factors that contribute to the business learning aspects (Bargiela-Chiappini,
Nickerson & Planken, 2006). There are several factors that are studied in detail by employees in
order to carry the work as per the organization’s demand. The researchers and authors have
focused on implementing overall communicative competence in the workplace with the help of
written and oral communication. Business discourse is influenced by several fields and
disciplines that include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography, the pragmatics of
interaction and organizational communication. It is thereby important to work on all the
disciplines while including vocabulary in communication and jargon in LSP courses. Both
aspects are understood and analyzed in order to ensure a major concern in overall
communication in the workplace.
Vocabulary in developing communicative competence
The role of vocabulary in LSP courses is important but is not the only aspect that is important in
developing overall communicative competence at work. The second language learners are

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majorly aware of the vocabulary importance that is fundamental to the course of the learning
aspect in the workplace. The basic skill that is needed is vocabulary skills which are essential in
the EFL and ESL learners. There are specific advancement courses for a specific purpose in the
workplace. The major advantage of advanced learning actions are focused on direct vocabulary
learning and is specific to the areas of learning. There is moreover a major tendency to reflect the
importance and challenges in learning vocabulary skills. To overcome certain challenges, there
are several types of vocabulary which can be specifically used in the business. As such there are
strategies that tend to work with the vocabulary and teaching aspects that tend to focus on
finding the real meaning and importance of words in the workplace. There is a direct relationship
with using the correct vocabulary in the workplace and instructing employees to ensure and teach
vocabulary as the aspect of business learning. There are several kinds of vocabulary aspect that
are in context with the ESP and non-ESP vocabulary that are used in teachings in the workplace
(Lafford, 2012).
Spoken and written vocabulary
Although there are several kinds of literature that are provided in the study in order to ensure
corpus-based investigations and spoken vocabulary which is relatively important and in use for
actual business purpose. The revealing difference that is understood for spoken and written
vocabulary is to write the texts and speak the language as per the use of lexical and non-lexical
words in written data. While it is even important to work on the non-content items such as
conjunctions, prepositions, and pronouns in the business. The spoken list ensures the lexical
works such as right, get, think, know and get which are spoken than widely written in workplace
communication. This is a noticeable difference that is created while ensuring lexical negotiation
and working on spoken discourse which is easier than writing the aspect of the business
discourse. At times, spoken discourse can be confusing and vague which needs more general
words and not jargon words in the everyday speech which is effective in the business (Bhatia,
2004).
There is a difference between the vocabulary used which is specifically important for an
employee to use in the writing and speech. The comparative analysis of spoken language is about
the issue of communicative language and the fundamental source that ensures language for a
specific purpose. There are core and non-core vocabulary which refers to the language of the

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words that are spoken and have a meaningful potential for the study (Johns, 2013). The words
that ensure antonym and work on the formality of the situations are furthermore analyzed with
special instructions. From the given words such as scrawny, thin, slim and emaciated, thin is the
core word that can be easily demonstrated in the example. Procedural vocabulary is studied with
the aspect of learning independent lexicon and working on several solutions, variety,
assumptions, and factor (Salminen & Charles & Kankaanranta, 2005). These are the main
functions that can be used in structure discourse.
Vocabulary is not enough for developing communicative competence in the workplace thereby it
is necessary to focus on several business aspects that are important to be studied and applied as
per the use of words in written and oral. Although vocabulary includes a wider aspect, there are
certain shortcomings in using vocabulary always in the workplace (Handford & Koester, 2010).
At any point in time, there can be certain deviations while speaking to the audience, thereby it is
necessary to ascertain the importance of writing while giving the speech. Writing is a legal
aspect that is considered well in the business context especially where the information is really
crucial or important to be discussed with the employees. Thereby, written, spoken and several
other aspects are mentioned in the study for developing communicative competence in the
workplace.
Jargon in LSP
Jargon in Language for specific purposes is a very useful form of language in which people use
jargon in terms of complicated terms that are not always understood by other people. The
baffling matrices ensure that the use of jargon is like an expression to the business
communication which opens the door for language learners. This is not as such creepy as it
sounds. While it has to be mentioned that Jargon is not the only way to develop communication
skills in the workplace. There are other specific necessities for developing communicative
competence in the workplace. Jargon is a form of a different language that is expertise language
which is communicated with the employees in technical terms which can be really difficult for
other people to understand with professional terms. This enables the major working field of
workplace communication which belongs to several groups such as technical, marketing,
operations, and financial groups. Each group has jargon which is specialized and is clearly
understood by the team members. This is an important form of communication for employees in