Enhancing multimodal communicative competence in ESP: the case of job interviews

Abstract ESP teaching has traditionally centred on the discourse practices of specific genres to develop students’ discursive competence in target language. However, with advent studies multimodality, there been a growing recognition that new pedagogical approaches are required teaching. In this study, we discuss research-informed proposal deal job interviews, highly routinised spoken genre is typically addressed Business English courses. Drawing previous literature (Cope, B. and Kalantzis, M. (2015). The things you do know: an introduction pedagogy multiliteracies. In: Cope, (Eds.), A Learning by design . Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire, pp. 1–36; Lim, F.V. (2018). Developing systemic functional approach teach multimodal literacy. Funct. Ling. 5: 1–17), present aims promote awareness nature interviews their communicative through instruction, practice feedback.