B.A. (English Language) UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA Second Semester 2011/2012 BBI 3211 (English for Specific Purposes)

UNIT 6 (Methodology for ESP) Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Faiz Abdullah

UNIT 6: METHODOLOGY FOR ESP Sub-topics: ESP Methodology and EGP Methodology Activities in ESP Using Students’ Knowledge of the Specialism Problem Solving Tasks Review

ESP/EGP Methodology Differences between ESP/EGP teaching/learning: teacher roles in the ESP classroom, teacher and student knowledge of the specialism, the relationship between the specialism and ESP methodology, and tasks for the ESP classroom

ESP/EGP Methodology… Dudley-Evans and St John (1998, p. 187): “We [suggest] that ESP teaching can be very different to EFL [EGP] teaching …mainly from two factors associated with the learners: the specialist knowledge that they bring – both conscious and latent; the cognitive and learning processes that they bring with them from their experience of learning and working within their specialist field.”

Roles of the ESP teacher/instructor Empathiser Consultant Course designer and administrator Diplomat/Negotiator Analyst Materials writer Evaluator and tester Report writer Collaborator with content specialists Classroom researcher

Activities in ESP Role Plays Simulations Case studies Project work Oral presentation Information transfer Information gap Jigsaw listening/reading

Using Students’ Knowledge of their Specialism Appropriating students’ knowledge of: the world, their mother tongue, and other languages To carry out Problem Solving Tasks Using a ‘deep-end’ strategy Using ‘PPP’ to Present (teacher), Practice (learners) and Produce (learners) language structures