More on ESP
Read the following presentation and pay special attention to these pieces of information:
- ESP absolute characteristics
- ESP variable characteristics
- Hutchinson et al.'s ESP definition
- David Carter's types of ESP
- Carter´s characteristics of ESP courses
ESP - English for specific purposes de Basharat Mirza
Now let's watch this video which clearly explains how a business course is designed at university to meet the students' need.
Now let's watch this video which clearly explains how a business course is designed at university to meet the students' need.
You can click on the square icon on your right to read the subtitles
Try to answer these questions after watching the video just for you to take into account information about the design of the course.
- When in their university career, students take the ESP course?
- How long is the course? and How is it divided?
- What material do students use in the course?
- What's the purpose of the supplementary course?
- What are the main skills used to help students succeed in the courses?
- What are the steps or activities thought to tackle the great amounts of reading?
- What does the final project consist of?
- What do you think of this course?
(These questions are just for you to have an idea of how an ESP course is designed. You don't need to hand in the answers)
HOMEWORK
- Read chapter 3 "Finding the right material" from "Teaching English for specific purposes: an introduction". Click here.
- After reading chapter 3, click on your name and you will be readdress to the site of a ESL publisher, more specifically to the catalogue section.
- Look for the ESP section or a section where ESP books are shown and read the information that each coursebook provides.
- In a comment, at the end of this lesson (as you did with the previous homework) write the following information about the publisher you were assigned to:
*Types of ESP books offered
DEADLINE: FRIDAY 30th
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ResponderBorrarTeacher, I've sent you my HW (Lesson 1 & 2)last Saturday afternoon, but I can not see them here. Have you received them?
ResponderBorrarLaura, I only got a message in my e-mail inbox telling me that you posted here in lesson 2 but then you deleted the comment. Check that above says that you deleted. I haven't received a message telling me about a comment in lesson 1. There have been some problems with posting comments, technical problems but I have received the mails with the comments posted. Like your last one but not the one in lesson 1. Can you send the one in lesson 1 again?
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ResponderBorrar“In company 3.0” is the course book I was assigned to. This course book is a new and latest edition of the previous book, named “In Company.”
The course book is published by McMillan in Company and its authors are; Mark Powell and Simon Clarke and Edward de Chazal and John Allison.
The aim of this course book is to provide the application of the language in the business world. It is focused on business trends, helping learners’ to acquire specific and practical vocabulary, in order to use it in everyday scenarios. It can be found different topics, such as “Gossiping at work”, “Collaboration”, “Persuasion”, “Stress”, etc. The course book also provides interactive and enjoyable activities to deal with.
It can be found a wide variety, concerning level of English on this new edition of books. We as teachers, have to choose carefully, and implement and develop the material according to the level of our learners. That is the reason why we can find 5 (five) different levels on these books. For example:
• B, for Beginners. Or also known as Starter.
• E, used for Elementary students.
• PI, Pre-intermediate students.
• I, Intermediate students.
• UI, Upper-Intermediate students.
Each level of English deals with topics that are accessible buy at the same time, they present a challenge to the learner.
I considered the course book is useful for those teachers who are looking for new and accessible material in the business field. Besides providing course books, “In Company 3.0” By McMillan offers a platform where teachers and learners can access to audios, videos and interactive practice via online. Making the process, of teaching and learning, flexible and suitable for learners’ timetables.
Gonzalez, Maria Celeste
Celeste, I had to post your comment with my account because of tech problems. You were not supposed to analyse just a book but the catalogue of the publisher. But your analyses is ok since it was the only ESP book offered by this publisher.(Pass 10)
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ResponderBorrar``Finding the right material´´
It is important that teachers, before starting their classes, should provide themselves with the appropriate material to work with during their lessons. Those materials should be based on the learner´s needs. But it can happen that using a single coursebook does not cover the student's needs. So, in this case, the teacher has to look for others books and mix and match the material needed.
Besides, teachers should add to their courses additional material according to the learners´ needs.
Nowadays, due to the technological advances, it is easier for teachers to find published coursebooks which offer photocopiable worksheets and classroom activities online.
For these reasons, there are lots of books that can be used by teachers in order to make their lessons suitable for students. In the following step, I'm going to describe some information from a particular publisher.
The name of the publisher is Cambridge English. This site provides a catalogue section in which there are some books concerning different resources from primary student´s to business professionals.
There are some books that offer: American English, British English and International English. The books shown have different format. For instance they can be: Books, Audio, Online & Online Blended, Mixed Media and Video.
The level of English of the books are:
A1 Beginner/Basic
A2 Low Intermediate
B1 Intermediate
B2 High Intermediate
C1 Advanced
By Laura Magallanes.
Laura, as with Celeste, I had to post your comment because of tech problems. Your analysis and conclusions are great but some information is missing. You were supposed to check mainly the ESP offers of the publisher and write the different types of ESP books, such as books for business. Please, check this missing item again by visiting the site and complete your analysis with that information.
BorrarHi teaccher, could you read lesson 1?
ResponderBorrarNo, I couldn't. I haven't received any notification in my mail account and it isn't published on the blog. Can you send what you wrote to my e-mail, please!
BorrarSchinner karla
ResponderBorrarThe main goal of "National geographic is to help learners and teachers of English to achive personal success and better citizens of the 21st century. They want English language teachers and students to experience the excitement and enjoy of learning, and to bring their classroom to life. Their mission is to inspired students to learn and acquire the skills they need to be successful in their careers or educational experiences. They have an easy access for learners and educators and also students save money and time by buying direct. Moreover, yo can find a sale representative.
The publisher is "National geographic". We can find professional English series by Kristin L Johansen, Martin Milner, Josephine O'brien, Hector Sanchez and Ivan Williams.
They have a huge variety of books here and they are:
English for professional success.
English for health science.
English for business.
English for humanities.
English for science and engineering.
US citizen, yes.
Presenting in english.
The language of meetings.
English for cabin crew.
Energy English.
Technical English.
We can find mostly B1-B2 and Intermediate level of English, but there are others with high-intermediate- intermediate and upper intermediate level as well as beginners- high beginners and low intermediate ones.
Karla, you were lucky because your analysis was published. Well done! The name of the publisher is, in fact, Cengage Learning but now they are working with The National Geographic Learning division and that's why you see that name on the site. A very good analysis! 10(ten)
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