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