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CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE AUTO-CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE AUTO-APRENDIZAJE EN LENGUASAPRENDIZAJE EN LENGUAS

BA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHINGBA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP)

FIFTH SEMESTERFIFTH SEMESTER

AUGUST 2010AUGUST 2010

EENGLISH FOR SSPECIFIC PPURPOSES

• What?

• Why?

• For what?

• How?

ESP What?

• A definition

ESP Why?

• Teaching English for Specific Purposes has been growing in importance in Mexico over the past 30 years. In universities, the need for academic reading skills in English in different subject areas is well-established. More recently, the demand for preparation for postgraduate study in the United States or England has been growing in importance. In technological universities, graduates working in companies will need varying degrees of proficiency in English in all four skills. In all regions of Mexico, the demand for English for occupational purposes is significant and growing all the time. Some university language centres offer courses which have a special emphasis on English for work purposes.

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ESP Why?

• The growth in all forms of ESP inside and outside universities in Mexico, has not been matched by training initiatives for ESP teachers.

• ESP teaching has sometimes been called another name for good English teaching, because of its starting point: the learner and their needs and wants. However, there are three important features reflecting the essential nature of ESP teaching: Processes, contexts and materials.

ESP For what?

AIM• To develop and adapt participants expertise to teach

learners with particular learning needs, wants and likes.

ESP For what? OBJECTIVES:By the end of the course, you will be able to :•  1. Distinguish between ESP and EGP courses.•  2. List the different forms of needs analysis and explain their rationale.•  3. Establish a set of course objectives based on this needs analysis.•  4. Analyse samples of relevant texts and discuss distinguishing linguistic features.•  5. Describe the different types of syllabus available to the ESP course designer.•  6. Select and sequence the topics, language, skills, activities and situations

relevant to their learners.•  7. List criteria for the analysis and selection of materials relevant to your learners.•  8. Apply these criteria to possible course materials in your own teaching situation.•  9. Evaluate the success of commercially produced and locally produced materials

in your own teaching situations.•  10. Recognise different forms of course evaluation and apply them to your own

courses.

ESP How?

THE COURSE OUTLINE1. An Introduction to ESP2. Gathering Information

3. Planning an ESP course4.Teaching and learning

5. Selecting, adapting and producing materials

6. Evaluating and assessing

ESP How?

Assessment Tasks:

You will be asked to write short essays, produce materials or analytical and information-gathering instruments, and to carry out tasks and report on them. Examples here are:

• investigate and report on the ESP situation in your institution• carry out a needs analysis, discussing the instrument you use and the findings• select and justify a course design framework for an ESP situation• establish a set of guidelines or principles for an aspect of materials production or

course design• plan the content/ activities/ support/ or assessment for an ESP lesson or unit• design ESP materials • teach a lesson in which materials or activities are trialled and evaluate it• design assessment procedures for an ESP course• develop case studies of ESP learners or contexts

ESP How?

Activities:

You are also expected to participate in discussions and activities on ESP current issues including:

• Observing and interviewing an ESP practitioner in the local context.

• Creating and carrying out a needs analysis with your own learners.

• Establishing to what extent your own teaching respond to your learners’ needs, wants and likes.

• Comparing and knowing how to adapt the materials to your learner’s needs in order to promote a more effective learning.

• Searching for suitable materials to ESP learners.

• Creating suitable online materials for your learners (hot potatoes, learning objects, e-tivities.)

ESP Key books and journals BOOKS

• Dudley_Evans T and MJ St John (1998) Developments in English for Specific Purposes. Cambridge.

• Hutchinson T and A Waters (1987) ESP. Cambridge.

• Jordan R (1997) English for Academic Purposes: A Guide. Cambridge.

• Robinson P (1990) ESP Today. Pergamon Press.

JOURNALS• The English Language Teaching Journal sometimes carries ESP-related articles and

is now available on the web. •  • English for Specific Purposes is the leading ESP journal and an excellent source for

case studies and reports on ESP teaching and research world-wide, as well as for review articles and discussions of current issues and developments.

Adapted from The Study Guide for the Diploma in Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Copyright the British Council, 2002.

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