Developing Courses in English for Specific

Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes Helen Basturkmen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

The thematic and non-thematic issues aim to give an insight into the specifics of ESP, notably in its linguistic, discursive, cultural and didactic aspects, and also to develop our knowledge of the various specific English registers used for different purposes. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes focus on both the structure and lexis needed for a particular field as well as the types of activities that the student is expected to perform within the profession. ESP (English for Specific Purposes) has been referred to as "applied ELT" as the content and aims of any course are determined by the needs of a specific group of learners. ESP is often divided into EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EOP ESP practitioners are also becoming increasingly involved in intercultural communication and the development of intercultural competence. DEVELOPING AN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES COURSE USING. Workshops on this course are balanced, varied, communicative, and creative; they encourage learner independence, so that participants can experience how motivating such a methodology is. The British Council Ukraine and IATEFL Ukraine invite teachers of English (primary, secondary, tertiary) to take part in the Teacher Development Summer School. The development of an academic discipline can be traced in the pages of the journals in which its teachers and researchers publish. Participants will reflect ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES. This was done for two different groups of students with two different needs--English for Specific Academic Purposes and English for General Academic Purposes. ASp publishes research articles, publication listings and reviews related to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for both teaching and research. Strategy of English for For example, business students might decide to concentrate on the financial aspects of the business, whereas art and design students might decide to concentrate on the design of advertising and the establishment. The students improved not only their confidence to handle genres but also their attitude toward language learning, as explicit instruction provided them with "a concrete opportunity to acquire conceptual and cultural frameworks to undertake writing tasks beyond the courses in which such teaching occurs" (Cheng, 2006, p. CHAPTER III - DEVELOPING AN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES COURSE USING A LEARNER CENTERED APPROACH.