TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIF PURPOSES

TASK 2- DEFINING ESP

Estudiantes
Cristina Abello Bernal
Código: 1.083.032.160
Álvaro Andrés Babilonia Mendoza
Código: 1.051.446.314
Leyla Cecilia Hernández Orozco
Código: 45.488.885
Grupo: 551038A-764

Tutor:

Clara Esperanza Bilbao Cortes

Fecha:

5-October- 2020

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD)

ECEDU: BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

COLOMBIA
2020
Activity 1. Reflection:

Teaching English for specific purposes is a course that helps to develop different capacities

either in the personal or work environment, this course helps to acquire an optimal teaching

process in English where the difficulties that you have in the language can be improved, such

as This future teacher will help me when I work with my students because I will be sure of

what I am teaching and what I teach. Of course, it is important to recognize that every training

process generates learning, that is why it is necessary to know how to use each of the resources

provided by each course and how we can take it to our day-to-day, however it is necessary to

have a lot of effort and dedication to to be able to learn everything you need. This course is

related to my language learning experience because it has different skills and at the same time

looks at the needs that a person has when learning, it is a course that has a very broad training

process because it has: analysis, design and planning the course of study, methodology and

materials, learning styles, tests and exams, academic style, etc

 2. Make a metal map about the evolution or development of ESP in recent years. Include all the main types of ESP and how
this can relate to ELT

TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Origin

In 1950 adults had a In the decade of the

purpose to learn, Second World War there
especially for them. Start It arose from the need to survive in the business was already a domain of
after the foreign language,
world in England, in the 16th era. until today.

First off all

teaches
This means
The teacher
The students On the one hand
Themes of
interest
young boys Adults Organize

develops Activities materials

Is based
Language skills
Innovative generate didactics
Purposes Needs

Focus on 1 learning environment

relationship in ESP
student learning finally
and ELT 2. Student progress
4.Considering the current perspectives in teaching ESP, write a short reflection on the role
of technology in teaching English for specific purposes.

Technology has become a tool of our day to day. From the Internet, cell phones and electronic
devices with which we live, it seems that our reality is inseparable from technology. It also
plays an important role in learning today, especially in language learning. Either because it
simplifies the experience of accessing knowledge or because it helps us find a privileged
training in terms of study methodology. The truth of the case is that we must take advantage
of this useful resource to learn English.

In addition to providing knowledge, motivating the student to learn a foreign language in a

pleasant way, that is, attractive designs occur through dynamism, the complement between
sound, image and touch make learning comprehensive and much more entertaining. In
addition, they make the work of our brain much easier. For the little ones it is really attractive
combining play with study, and teachers also benefit a lot from this by taking advantage of
educational alternatives while their students manipulate electronic devices.

Also, creativity in teaching English shows us a better way of doing things. Technology
encourages the emergence of self-study practices that lead us to use electronic media as an
inexhaustible source of information and learne
DEFINITION ESP
English for specific purposes can be defined as the teaching of English focused on a particular
use or activity, according to the needs of each discipline or profesión.
the esp is designed to know the specific needs of the student, it is not a particular type of
language but an approach to language.It is based on teaching English according to the learning
context or application.
ESP, then, is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method
are based on the learner's reason for learning.
it can be understood as a particular group of people analyzing the particular linguistic
characteristics of their area of specialization or study.
The key defining feature of ESP is that its teaching and materials are founded on the results
of needs análisis. ESP is centred on the language (grammar, lexis, register), skills, discourse
and genres appropriate to these activities.

MENTAL MAP
REFLECTION
technology is influencing the lives of human beings in an accelerated way; It is present in all
fields, it is a tool that facilitates processes in all axes of knowledge, allows planning, directing,
executing and controlling in an organized manner and of course the area of education cannot
be oblivious to this type of progress and tools.The use of these, offer some truly useful
elements, which allow a significant interaction between the teacher and the student, as long
as they are used in an adequate way, because it is necessary to remember that they do not
work by themselves, but are human beings who give movement and application to these, so
that they can be exploited in the best way.
As previously stated, technology can be a very useful tool in the teaching of English for
specific purposes, as long as it is known to use it properly.
Activity 1 Reflection:

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) provides an overview of teaching English
for precise targets. It focuses not only on study skills, but also in other central concerns
of ESP, such as needs analysis design and course curriculum, methodology and materials,
learning styles, tests and exams, and academic style and gender analysis.

In addition, the course also considers specific issues, language and the production
of teaching materials. At all times, the content takes a user-friendly approach in
which theoretical considerations are balanced with practical experience.
The problems are discussed and illustrated, but participants are also encouraged to
form their own opinions through stimulating introspection and discussion sections at
the end of each chapter.
ESP train teachers in their daily work of teaching English oriented ability to reflect
and see their pedagogical in a more critical and objective, stimulate your own ideas
for teaching, materials development or additional research through articles and
research exercises.
 ESP (English for Specific Purposes)

From its The

The 1970s Advances
early and 1980s Research in the generalization
The 1990s and area has may be of
beginnings in witnessed 2000s have For the last fifty
of the teaching
the flourished in
years , education of English in greater
the 1960s consolidatio
seen a rapid the last 20 interest to
ESP has increase in years has has faced The demand for practically all
n of the challenges, teaching the ESP
research and evolved as a English training professional
undergone movement in they have strategy, English to students for non-English and academic community
three main emphasis on continued their from other
language and adapted to learners has been domains the world
expansion. disciplines sucha as
phases of skills and vocational or
law, engineering,
driven by
increases the and to
professional globalization.
development research.
needs. business or demand for English
. technology. language
ESP
professionals. specialists in
general.
 TYPES OF ESP
EOP (English for occupational According to
EAP (English for academic purposes) Hutchinson & Waters,
purposes)
ESP is divided into
three main branches,
Refer to the languages English for Refers to the which are considered
and associated practices English for academic specific ways to be parts of academic
that people need to managament purposes English is used English:
study or work in English. finance and in different
The objective is to help economics work and
to learn some of the Science and English for
professional
linguiistic and cultural technology specific and
situations
practices, mainly technical
institutional and studies
disciplinary, involved in Medical Pre-vocational
studying or working purposes English
through English Business
English
Legal Vocational
purposes English
English for
social studies
 ESP - ELT
ESP designs The ESP
The ESP ESP is more studies based teacher has
The spread of ESP ESP is basically practitioner should focused, on realistic to prepare
has influenced involved in a be interested in practical and goals and their own
English language "training research methods object-oriented, evaluates teaching
teaching. At operation" on that can be useful ELT allows student materials,
present, many ELT the contrary to perform various students to performance. collects
teachers analyse ELT participates tasks such as study the There is no materials
the needs of their in an needs analysis, in principles of team teaching, from various
students to make "educational ELT, there is no language and in ELT you do sources or
their programmes operation". such research communication, not necessarily writes his
more effective because the same and the practice set goals and own. The ELT
traditional of teaching the objectives. teacher has
grammatical English assigned a
structures are language. prepare
being taught. material that
has been
availlable for
many years.
Activity 3

Write a short reflection on the role of technology in teaching English for specific purposes.

The teaching of ESP within learning as a foreign language, part of the needs of students
whose linguistic content is based on the discipline or specialty served. People are sometimes
shocked by the technological advancement that we have worldwide, where it is considered
that doing and relating basic jobs will no longer be necessary because technology will do it
for us as if to replace us, thinking that the interaction will never be direct again, but even if it
is through a remote screen we have the opportunity to see what is happening in the world and
to see our families, in these times of the pandemic we decided not to get caught and as a
result of this new modality of I work from home and from a computer and telephone, which
also gives us many opportunities to share