Report on ESP

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ESP (English for Specific

Purposes)

Meaning

Origin

Development

Role of ESP

Teacher

marvin j. ocenar

Presentor


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Definition . . ..

What is

ESP?

English for Specific Purposes

(ESP) is a learner-centered approach toteaching English as an additional

language which focuses on developing

English communication skills in a

specific discipline, such as accounting,

agrology, education, engineering, IT

technology, and academic learning.


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Definition . . ..

What is

ESP?

- it refers to the teaching of a specific genre of

mostly technical English for students withspecific goals, careers or fields of study.

- e.g.

English for Academic Purposes

English for Business & Management

Hotel & Catering English


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Characteristics of ESP . . .

Characteristics of ESP (Dudley-Evans, 1997)

1. ESP is defined to meet specific

needs of the learners( Maslow's

Hierarchy of needs)

1. ESP makes use of underlying

methodology and activities of the

discipline it serves.

1. ESP is centered on the language

appropriate to these activities in

terms of grammar, lexis, register,

study skills, discourse and genre.

1. ESP may be related to or designed for

specific disciplines

2. ESP may use, in specific teachingsituations, a different methodology from

that of General English

3. ESP is likely to be designed for adult

learners, either at a tertiary level

institution or in a professional work

situation. It could, however, be for

learners at secondary school level

4. ESP is generally designed for

intermediate or advanced students.

5. Most ESP courses assume some basic

knowledge of the language systems

Absolute Variable


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Origin of ESP . . .

Origin of ESP . . .

The demands of a Brave New World, post WW2

A revolution in linguistics

A focus on the learner


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Origin of ESP . . .

The demands of a Brave New World, post WW2

- Expansion of science, technology, and economics.

- Historical reasons led to the dominance of English in science and

business.

- A new generation of learners of English, learning, not just to be

cultured, or well educated, but learners who needed English, and

knew why they needed it.

- Teachers of English became more accountable, subject to the

needs, wishes, and demands of whoever was paying. English

teachers started working not just in educational establishments,

but in businesses, where results were expected, and paid for.


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Origin of ESP . . .

A revolution in linguistics

- Traditionally: grammar. New emphasis: language in the realworld - the so called communicative approach.

- Language varies according to situation, therefore the distinctive

features can be identified, and made the basis of the new courses.In particular, there was some discussion of the distinctive

features of the language of science, and a concentration on these

features in lessons.

A focus on the learner- In psychology, emphasis on the learner and their attitudes.

- Hence courses where importance was given 'relevance' to

learners needs and interests.


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Development of ESP . . .


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- 1960s and early 1970s.

- aim was to identify the grammatical and lexical features of the

different registers.

- main motive was the pedagogic one of making the ESP course

more relevant to the students needs.

- focused on language at the sentence level and on sentencegrammar


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-. ESP focused on the level above the sentence, as ESP became

closely involved with the emerging field of discourse or

rhetorical analysis and how sentences were combined in

discourse to produce meaning (Henry Widdowson, Larry Selinker

and Louis Trimble)

Basic hypothesis: we take the view that difficulties which students encounter arisenot so much from a defective knowledge of the system of English, but from an

unfamiliarity with English use, and that consequently, their needs cannot be met by

a course which simply provides further practice in the composition of sentences, but

only by one which develops a knowledge of how sentences are used in the

performance of different communicative acts (Widdowson , 1974)


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- aimed was to take the existing knowledge and set it on a more

scientific basis, by establishing procedures for relating language

analysis more closely to learners reasons for learning

- to enable learners to function adequately in a target situation,

that is, the situation in which the learners will use the language

they are learning.


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- the principal idea behind the skills-centered approach is that underlying all

language use there are common reasoning and interpreting processes , which,

regardless of the surface forms, enable us to extract meaning form discourse

- the focus should rather be on the underlying interpretive strategies , which

enable the learner to cope with the surface forms, for example guessing the

meaning of words from context, using visual layout to determine the type of

text, exploiting cognates, etc.

- the language learners are treated as thinking beings who can be asked to

observe and verbalize the interpretive processes they employ in language use.


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- concern is not with LANGUAGE USE but

with LANGUAGE LEARNING


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Roles of ESP teachers. . .

What are the roles

of ESP Teachers?


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Role of ESP teachers . . .

ESP teachers as

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Teacher

Collaborator

Course designer and materials

provider

Researcher

Evaluator


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ESP teachers as Teacher

- synonymous with that of the General English teacher

ESP teachers as Collaborator

- working closely with field specialists.

- collaborating more closely with the learners

ESP teachers as Course Designer and Materials Provider required to design courses and provide materials.

- how specific materials would be

- materials that cover a wide range of fields, arguing

that the grammatical structures, functions, discourse

structures, skills, and strategies of different

disciplines are identical


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ESP teachers as Researcher

- conduct a research in order to come up with materialsappropriate for the classroom.

ESP teachers as Evaluator

-evaluate the effectiveness of the materials for a certain course.


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