English for Specific purposes-Chapter10.pptx

English for Specific purposes

1. Classroom practice and beyond Developments in ESP

2. What’s inside Learner’s specialist knowledge Class size Beyond the classroom

3. Learner’s specialist knowledge Since ESP learners bring to their language learning some knowledge of the own specialist field and the communication within it, the ESP teacher has to develop a conscious awareness so that control is gained, whether over language, rhetorical structure or communication skills.

4. Content Knowledge Teaching ESP is different from teaching EFL because learners have knowledge that they need to use, which generally ESP teachers do not have.

5. Roles and Relationships An ESP teacher provides a bank of English for learner’s to use. Any judgment of appropriacy, versus accuracy can only be made jointly.  An ESP teacher is often more of a consultant than a teller giving advice, suggesting alternatives and allowing the learner to make informed decisions.

6. The ESP teacher must acknowledge and use the learners’ greater knowledge of the carrier content. An appropriate diagrammatic representation of many ESP situations would be figure IO.I not figure Io.2. ESP teacher  ESP learner figure Io.2. ESP teacher  ESP learner figure Io.2.

7. Teaching and learning Materials Another effect is on the kind of teaching materials used. Framework materials ( discussed in chapter 9 ), which use learners' experience, are a good example. The carrier content comes from those with that knowledge - the specialists, the language learners.

8. Methodological approaches PPP (present, practise , perform) tradition of EFL. PPP can work effectively for beginners to intermediates or when both the language and the communicative event are new to the learner. The deep-end strategy takes performance as its starting point. The learners use their existing L2 competence, discovering where it is adequate and where it fails them. The extreme of deep-end strategy is to set a task and ask students to perform.

9. Integrating the methodologies of other Disciplines A strength of ESP methodology is the way in which language learning and subject learning approaches can be integrated. Case studies - design an advertisement - write a letter/report - draw up a business plan - design an announcement for display on computer screens.

10. Project Work In subject projects students generally have to: - generate a hypothesis - carry out a literature review - test the hypothesis - write a report - give an oral presentation or seminar