This paper comes out of concern about instructional principles of developing English for Specific Purposes (ESP) materials in China. It points out the major problems of ESP material development in China: incapability to write ESP materials; selection of materials; imbalance between carrier content and real content; imbalance in language skills development. To solve these problems, it is suggest...

The article deals with teaching grammar on English for specific purpose classes at those higher educational institutions that do not have languages as their majors. author points out textbooks in purposes contain any materials or cover just main paying little attention to practice. Some of them has references where students can learn some basic information about structures but there are no prac...

The current article discusses the main methodology of teaching ESP for adult learners. There are covered some specific approaches and techniques widely used in classroom. Not only vocabulary but also other four language skills such as listening, speaking, reading writing demand special compulsory methods to teach effectively due function form utilized sphere. That`s because, is considered one c...

As one of the most important branches of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), Business English has nearly sixty years' history in China. Needs analysis is the most important stage of ESP teaching and is a widely used tool to study the validity and relevancy of all curriculum design activities in Business English teaching. It assures a flexible curriculum responsive to the needs of various stake...

Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

Togetherness of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been the subject of many recent studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) domain. Few studies, however, have addressed the impact of TBLT on ESP learners’ linguistic production. This study aimed at investigating the impact of task-based teaching on ESP lear...

this paper presents participation of faculties and heads of department (hods) in environmental education. for this purpose 60 hods/faculties from polytechnic colleges of tamilnadu, india and 100 hods/ faculties from associate degree level technical institutions in iran from civil engineering branch were selected. several hypotheses were formulated to achieve certain objectives of the study. th...

    Consequential validity, a component of construct validity as a unified concept introduced by Messick(1989), deals with the impacts of tests on teaching, learning, individual test takers, teachers, society, and educational system within a country. Although the impacts of language tests on teaching and learning have been somehow studied, the consequences of ESP tests on individual test taker...