A literature review of the specificity debate

Subject content is an important part of ESP courses. However, it is controversial how much subject content should be integrated into course content. This paper reviews the debate over specificity of ESP courses in three ESP development periods since 1960s. It will provide ESP practitioners, course writers and managers a theoretical overview to inform their teaching and researching practices.

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A general overview of the literature focusing on the origins of losses, discussing the intertemporal solvency of central banks and modelling their balance sheets has been presented already in Cincibuch et al. (2008; 2009). Many useful general references can also be found in a recently published book edited by Milton and Sinclair (2011). In the present paper, we thus limit ourselves to reviewing specifically those papers that have explicitly discussed the link from central bank finances to policy pursuit, with an emphasis on empirical work.

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