This document discusses English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It defines ESP as an approach focused on meeting the specific language needs of learners for their disciplines or occupations. ESP has absolute characteristics like being designed for specific skills and not following one methodology. It also has variable characteristics like the type focusing on academics, occupations, or fields like science or medicine. The document outlines features of ESP courses like using authentic materials and being oriented to the purpose and needs of learners. It discusses concepts like the research base, language and text analysis, identifying learners' needs, and using a learner-centered methodology. In conclusion, it provides information about the author and course team.

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 WHAT IS ESP?
 Absolute characteristics
 Variable characteristics
 Types of ESP
 FEATURES OF ESP COURSES
 Authenticity
 Research base
 Language/text
 Learning needs
 Learning methodology
Content of my presentation

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 Hutchinson and Waters (1987) define ESP as an
approach rather than a product – meaning that ESP
does not involve a particular kind of language,
teaching material or methodology. The basic
question of ESP is: Why does this learner need to
learn a foreign language? The purpose of learning
English became the core.
WHAT IS ESP?

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 1. designed to meet the specific needs of the learner;
 2. related in content to particular disciplines or
occupations;
 3. centred on language specific to those disciplines or
occupations;
 4. in contrast to General English
Absolute characteristics

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 1. be restricted in the skills to be learned;
 2. not be taught according to a particular
methodology.
Variable characteristics

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 English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
 English for Occupational Purposes (EOP)
 English for (Academic) Science and Technology
(EST)
 English for (Academic) Medical Purposes (EMP),
 (English for Medical Purposes, English for Business
 Purposes – EBP
Types of ESP

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 authentic materials
 purpose-related orientation
 self-direction
FEATURES OF ESP
COURSES

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 The earliest concept to emerge from the development
of ESP was that of authenticity. The first generation
of ESP materials that appeared in the mid-1960s took
skills as their principal means of selection (Close,
1992). The underlying concept is that ESP teachers
would need to establish the skills priorities of
students in order to develop appropriate ESP
teaching materials. As Close argues, the conception
of authenticity was central to the approach taken to
the reading skill.
Authenticity

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 Halliday, McIntosh and Strevens (1964)
 as Herbert (1965) or Ewer and Latorre (1969)
 The principal limitation of this approach was not its
research base but its conception of text as register,
restricting the analysis to the word and sentence
levels as register was invariably defined in these
terms. The procedure adopted for the analysis was
twofold. The main structural words and non-
structural vocabulary were identified by visual
scanning. For the main sentence patterns, a small
representative-sample count was made.
Research base

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 Williams, 1988;
 Mason,1989;
 Lynch & Anderson, 1991;
 Jones, 1990.
 Allen and Widdowson (1974).
Language/text

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 This should not be a surprise for each and every specific
domain would impose its own needs, and it goes without
saying that the needs required for a specific field and the
methodology for serving these needs on the ground do
not work with another field which would defiantly
dictate its own requirements. All language teaching must
be designed for the "specific learning and language use
purposes of identified groups of students" (Mackay &
Mountford, 1978). Thus, a systematic analysis of these
specific learning needs and language-use purposes
(communication needs) is a pre-requisite for making the
content of a language programme relevant to the learners'
needs
Learning needs

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 A truly valid approach to ESP would be based on an
understanding of the processes of language learning.
Hutchinson and Waters (1987) refer to this approach as
the learning-centred approach and stress the
importance of a lively, interesting and relevant
teaching/learning style in ESP materials. In the context
of a language programme that emphasizes the needs of
the learners, anything but a learner/learning-centred
syllabus and methodology is bound to create
contradictions that will negatively affect students'
perceptions of the programme
Learning methodology

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 Teaching Foreign Language for Specific Purposes:
Teacher Development Milevica Bojović, MA, lecturer
Faculty of Agronomy Čačak, Serbia
milevib@eunet.yu
 Course Team Dr. Nneka Umera-Okeke (Developer) –
NOCOE,Nsugbe Dr. Nneka Umera-Okeke (Writer) –
NOCOE, Nsugbe Dr. I. Omolara Daniel
(Editor/Programme Leader) – NOUN Mr. Theodore
O. Iyere (Course Coordinator) – NOUN
Bibliography.

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