Ideas for ESP

 

ESP
 English for Special Purposes


"All language teaching should be based on learner needs."
Tom Hutchinson - English for Specific Purposes


These are some of the suggestions baring in mind the level of students and time allocated for ESP :

  • focusing on ESP as a learning process and not as a final product. 
  • engaging students in the ESP learning process by asking about their needs and wants
  • helping students be aware of their own abilities and potential
  • training students to use different strategies to help them with ESP in general. These strategies, students  can continue developing after the course
  • practice using Mind-maps
  • learning to classify words using grids and drawings and shapes
  • students create ESP flash cards in their major
  • preparing a three minute presentation in their major
  • preparing a two minute demonstration in their major
  • using authentic material  
  • students look for online website or blogs in their major
  • students prepare their CV  
  • students can create a dictionary for ESP using a small notebook . students can add words and pictures and drawings mind-maps about their major
  • working in groups or pairs  - students prepare a project for ESP -( timelines - a master mind-map - a notebook ESP dictionary ....)

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