Course design section 2 english for specific purposes. In spite of its relatively young age, english for specific purposes is today quite. Esp course design is the product of a dynamic interaction. The main concern is effective learning and how this can best be achieved in esp courses. Download free ebook english for specific purposes hutchinson 1991 pdf. In english academic purposes eap there is english for medical studies, and english for occupational purposes eap there is english for technicians. At the time, teachers of general english courses, while acknowledging that students had.
This book is dedicated for those who interested in modern way of teaching and. In the same vein, strevens 1977 stated that the history of lsp goes back to at least half a century. Studying to enter professions, focusing on the language of. Eap, course design and evaluation, business english and assessment. Pdf english for specific purposes esp national curriculum for. Esp courses, then, focus on the language, skills, and genres appropriate to the. Besides, esp divided into several focuses there are esp for science and technology est divided into two english academic purposes eap english for occupational purposes eap. English for academic purposes eap and english for occupational purposes eop. One of the biggest differences between general english ge course books and esp course books is that ge books tend to be driven by what id call a traditional grammar syllabus. When their book was written, of course, the last statement was quite true. English for specific purposes esp is a branch of english as a second.
This means in practice that much of the work done by esp teachers is concerned with designing appropriate courses for various groups of learners. Esp is contrasted with egp, or english for general purposes. Designing english for specific purposes course for. The hou is responsible for the editing of the publication and for the development of the texts in accordance with the distance learning methodology. English for specific purposes esp has evolved as an important subfield of english language education to meet the careerrelated needs of nonnative speakers of english in a. If english is taught as a second language along with other subjects for educational purposes as some useful subject to the learners in the future, then this is egp.
Before designing their own esp syllabuses and teachinglearning materials, individual universities, faculties and departments should carry out. To design an eap syllabus for the students of computer science. Developing a flexible esp programme design by r g d chamberlain and m k s flanagan the background and evolution of the british council communication skills in english programme for firstyear medical students at king faisal uni versity dammam saudi arabia 1977 note this paper is in two sections. The syllabus may be prominent or disguised to varying degrees, but it always seems to be there. Towards a communicative english for specific purposes esp and. Like munbys 1978 communicative syllabus design, hutchinson and waters 1987. English for specific purposes esp and syllabus design. The multi syllabus syllabus approach to design english for specific. English for specific purposes esp, esp curriculum, esp syllabus, syllabus design, and syllabus evaluation.