3. What ESP isn’t
It is not a matter of teaching
“specialized varieties” of English
It is not just a matter of words and
grammar for each area
It is not different kind from any form of
language teaching
4. ESP must be seen as an approach
not as a product
ESP is not a particular kind of
language or methodology, nor does it
consist of a particular type of teaching
material.
It is an approach of language learning
which is based on learner’s need.
All decisions as to content and
method are based on the learner’s
reason for learning.
8. QUESTIONS
1. Why does the S need to learn?
2. Who is going to be involved in the
process?
Teachers, sponsors, inspectors, coord
inators?
3. Where is the learning going to take
place? What potentials does the place
provide? What limitations does it
impose?
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4. When is the learning to take place?
How much time is available? How will
it be distributed?
5. What does the S need to learn?
Waht aspects of language will be
needed and how will they be
distributed? What level of proficiency
must be achieved? What topic areas
will need to be covered?
10. +QUESTIONS
6.How will the learning be achieved?
What learning theory will underlie the
course? What kind of methodology
will be employed?
More questions?
12. Language descriptions
They have been at a greet feast of language, and
stolen the scraps. (shakespeare: love’s labour’s lost)
ESP course makes use of explicit or implicit ideas about
the nature of language. These ideas are drawn from the
various language description that have been developed
by succeeding schools of thought linguistics.
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13. We can identify six main stages of
development.
1. Classical or traditional grammar
2. Structural linguistics
3. Transformational generative (TG) grammar
4. Language variation and register analysis
5. Functional / notional grammar
6. Discourse (Rhetorical) analysis
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14. conclusion
a) There is no single source from which a language
course can, or should, derive its linguistic input.
b) Describing a language for the purpose of
linguistic analysis does not necessarily carry any
implications for language learning.
c) Describing a language is not the same as
describing what enables someone to use or learn
a language.
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