Specificity and Esp Course Design

2012

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown in leaps and bounds in the last decade. Course design is one of the key stages in ESP. Hutchinson and Waters see ESP as an approach rather than a product, by which they mean that ESP does not involve a particular kind of language, teaching material and methodology. Language varieties are self-contained entities which extend from a common core of language. This paper has highlighted some of the issues involved in ESP curriculum development. The main focus is on the topic of language varieties and on the type of investigation ESP curriculum developers use to identify the gap between what learners already know and what they need to know in order to study or work in their specific target environments. Apart from this it examines the topic of wide- versus narrow-angled course designs.

Arab World English Journal, 2021

In this day and age, it is absolutely indispensable for acquiring competence in English to grapple with the real impediments and huge challenges of the modern epoch. The emergence of English as a global language is among the factors that could explicate its vitality and its expansion. The basic burden of making language courses more relevant to learners' needs resulted in the advent of languages for specific purposes movement, known in English Language Teaching circles as English for Specific Purposes. ESP then, has since its inception in the early 1960s become one of the most dynamic branches of applied linguistics in general, and of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in particular. To amass relevant data, a case study was conducted through a combination of a questionnaire, classroom observation, and informal interviews with language teachers and subject specialists. The main aim of this present paper is to precisely delineate the teaching/learning process of ESP in the department of Computer Sciences at the University of ORAN1 in Algeria, and the learners' attitudes towards this teaching. For this purpose, it is necessary to explore the utility of ESP as perceived by learners, and to address problems faced by instructors. The results indicate that the students have a positive attitude towards ESP and that their poor achievement was due to multiple reasons. This digest concludes by offering some suggestions and implications as remedial actions to the major confronted concerns.

Some Aspects of the ESP Curriculum Design for Tertiary Institutions. , 2007

The topicality of the issue is explained by discrepancy between the current English for Special Purposes (ESP) curriculum and students’ wishes and demands of labour market. In order to create an up-to-date ESP curriculum that would suit students, employers and clients’ wishes, the following research methods were used: analysis of theoretical literature and sources, empirical study (students’ interviews, students’ questioning, lecturers’ interviews, employers’ questioning) and qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods. The conducted needs analysis allows creating a modern curriculum based on theory and practice – setting its goal and tasks, choosing the most appropriate syllabi types, selecting teaching methods that correspond to students’ learning styles and satisfy students’ wishes and the requirements of the industry. Key words: needs analysis, curriculum, syllabus and ESP competence.

2015

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.

2016

Under the influence of the economic globalization, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) plays more and more important roles in various fields, and the requirements for English talents are much higher. However, due to the relatively short time of its courses construction in colleges and universities, ESP is far from maturity in our country. There are different problems in ESP teaching process, including the position of the talents training, the major and curriculum design, the talents training modes and the correlated ESP practical teaching, etc. Therefore, the following measures should be adopted with the purpose of exploring the college English talents training mode based on ESP: 1.To determine the talents training objectives based on the social needs; 2. To plan and write ESP textbooks based on needs analysis; 3. To innovate teaching methods combined with the features of ESP; 4. To emphasize the practical teaching; 5. To strengthen the ESP teaching staff construction.

Procedia Manufacturing, 2020

This article is a study of the methods and materials used in designing ESP (English for Specific Purposes) courses and its aim is to identify their functionality when applied to the specific case of English for manufacturing. The main purpose of the article is to offer a support to the English teacher in his/her endeavor to design an English course in this particular field of engineering. The English teacher has to produce teaching-learning experiences which start from the learners' needs and which have to render future professionals in the field of manufacturing that are highly equipped with the functional language skills required by the job market.

Pensamiento Actual

This essay pretends to deep on how the process of making decisions in designing an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course registered by three TESOL graduate students, structured by the author along with participants, a requirement of the Master of English Teaching for Speakers of Other Languages at University of Costa Rica (UCR).During the course the designers should help a group of UCR workers to communicate in English effectively with international students who want to study at UCR or those who were already participating in international programs. This study introduces data about the apprentices who benefit from this academic activity, tasks designed and taught, aswell as the evaluation and assessment used. Finally, it suggests some recommendations for those who may consider the option of designing an ESP course as an effective strategy to promote the use of the target language in a work context.

Vol. 29 (2022): Miasto Przyszłości, 2022

This article discussed about prospects of English for Specific Purpose course and recommendation of utilizing methodological approaches and selection of suitable materials. Furthermore, there is focused on the solution of practical problems aimed at active participation in intercultural communication associated with academic and professional fields of activities are utilized in learning and teaching process.

2019

Applied Linguistics, 2019