The presenters will discuss their personal experience of developing ESP programs at Indiana University, focusing on how the development process lead to contextually relevant academic curriculum and materials. Advice will be given on how other teachers can develop ESP curricula.
Gabriele and Shettle developing contextually relevant esp curricula tesol 2011
1. Developing Contextually Relevant ESP Curricula Leslie Gabriele and Denise Shettle Master Teachers Intensive English Program – Special Programs Indiana University, Bloomington lgabriel @indiana.edudshettle@indiana.edu 1
2. English Language Instruction Testing English Language Improvement Program Special Programs Intensive English Program International Teaching Assistants
3. Special Programs Department of Chemistry Jacobs School of Music Ernie Pyle School of Journalism US AID School of Education Bolashak Scholarship Program Maurer School of Law Kelley School of Business School of Public and Environmental Affairs
4. MBA & SPEA summer course International students admitted to Business and SPEA Master’s Programs – 600 TOEFL Optional 6 weeks / 4 hours daily July-August Language skills may be measured quantitatively by tests such as TOEFL, but successful communicative competence is multi-layered and contextually defined. 4
35. “Participants in multicultural communication are sensitive not only to the cultural meanings attached to the language itself but to social conventions concerning language use, such things as taking turns, appropriateness of content, nonverbal language, and tone” (Savignon1991, p. 10). 10
36. How appropriate or acceptable are the following scenarios involving a student and a professor? Your professors are very helpful and friendly, but there are still boundaries for what is or is not appropriate for students to do or expect their professors to do. Judge the appropriateness of the student’s action in these cases. 11