Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ESP
- Types
- Academic
- EAP - English for
Academic Purposes)
- work
- EVP - English for
Vocational
Purposes
- EOP - English for
Occupational
Purposes
- VESL - Vocational
English as a Second
Language
- Concept
- It is a learning approach that is based on the needs
of the student, so learning English in the context of a
certain professional discipline or for academic
purposes is a very important approach due to the
motivation and ease of application of the language
because influence the learning
- Related with
ELT
- ELT
- English Language Teaching: It is the
teaching of basic or general English as a
second or foreign language
- ELT and
ESP
- It is the dominant branch of ESP and they
both are focused on communication and
learning
- Evolution
- 1945 when the second world war finished there was important advances in
sicentific, technical and economic activity internationally, so technology and
commerce created a great impact of demmand around the world, and that´s
how english become in the universal laguage
- People start to be interest in learning English, to delevop communication
skills as a neccesity to access the most update information in different
disciplines as medicine, bussiness, etc.
- 1970 the oil crises generated that english became in a big bussiness, there
were more investagations about the particulatr varieties of English, on the
other hand, commercial pressures increase to teaching english profession
based on teh other profession´s needs
- 'Tell me what you need English for and I will tell you the English that you
need' became the guiding principle of ESP. (Hutchinson, 1987)
- Development
- The concept of special language: register
analysis
- The main goal was to produce a curriculum focused on the forms
of language that students would encounter in their science studies.
- Beyond the sentence: rhetorical or
discourse analysis
- It consists of identifying patterns of organization in texts and
specifying the linguistic means by which those patterns are
indicated.
- Target situation analysis
- The intention was to take existing knowledge and put it on a more
scientific basis, establishing procedures to relate language analysis
more closely to learners' reasons.
- A learning-centred approach
- The importance and implications of the distinction between language
use and language learning
- Skills and strategies
- It consists in considering not the language itself, but the thought
process underlying the use of language.
- ESP
courses
- EST (English for Science and Technology)
- EBE (English for Business and
Economics)
- ESS (English for the Social Sciences).