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.
