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Issues in ESP Course Design

Topic of syllabus

Using findings from need analysis to specify the context of the syllabus

Topic of Wide-Angled vs. Narrow angled

Topic of needs analysis

Topic of language varieties

  • Narrow-angled:learners with similar needs
  • Wide-angled:learners with needs that are only similar

What do learners know?

What do they need to know?

  • Register of the language use
  • Bloor and Bloor: two perspectives : 1.The Common Core Plus 2.All language is specific Purpose

All language is Specific Purpose

  • There is no common core of language
  • core is an essential part of all the varieties, where the varieties overlap
  • ESP learning can start at any level
  • acquiring structures in relation to the range of meanings

The Common Core Plus

  • Common use of general language
  • all areas of life
  • Basic Language
  • English before ESP

Coxhead's and Nixon's vocabulary categorization

  • high frequency words
  • academic vocabulary
  • technical vocabulary
  • low frequency words
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