Methodologies to teach ESP courses.

Methodologies to teach ESP courses.

1. Differences

   • Approaches to teach ESP
     • Techniques and methods are responsible for a particular situation
     • Teachers must assess a situation in order to select and adapt their methodology according to the needs of the learner
     • Will find that an eclectic approach to ESP teaching and learning is usually more effective
     • The audio-lingual method focuses on the skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking
     • Communicative aproaches helps learners manage the language.
     • The language-centered method focuses on linguistic performance.
     • The skills-centered approaches help to develop the skills. Learners are better processors of information.
     • There are three main approaches to teaching an ESP course: language-centered, skills-centered, and learning-centered.
   • Teaching Methodology Eclecticism
     • It does not choose only one approach. It combines methods that will be used in a situation.
     • The teacher “decides what methodology or approach to use depending on the aims of the lesson and the learners in the group”
     • ESP requires methodologies that are specialized or unique
     • Eclecticism in language teaching holds that although no single language teaching method manages to meet all the teaching and learning needs, many methods have valuable insights that should be drawn on
     • ESP learners demands that “all language teaching should be tailored to the specific learning and language use needs of identified groups of students”
     • Different teaching methodologies and approaches to adopt them according to the peculiarities of the learners as well as the learning contexts.
     • The methodological aspects of ESP teaching cater to the individual needs of ESP learners. Information.include gaps, prediction, integrated methodology (
     • ESP teaching requires diverse approaches and tasks to address diverse needs of specific learners. The tasks include gaps, prediction, integrated methodology.
     • ESP is a learner-centered approach in which all teaching practices are governed by specific needs of specific learners.