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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.”

6. 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

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

8. 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