English for Specific Purposes

By: M. Taufik 

This written is intended to be very much a practical guide, and to this end we have supplied a number of tasks at the end of each chapter. These are to get our thinking about the issues that are raised in that section and, in particular, to help to relate our necessarily general points to own specific situation. If we are concerned with teacher training, these tasks may also be useful as workshop or seminar activities. We can often be more valuable if done before reading the chapter itself.

Esp like form of language teaching is primarily concerned with learning and paid attention to the question how people learn – what people learn. So this book gives explanation about what does the learner need to learn the English language?

Introduction

The writers tried to give explanation about English for specific purposes to the learning. Especially for the new learner, cause the writers give explanation from based on designing of English language by Esp. The writers divided his written into tree sections;

Section: 1 about course design with the basic principles and techniques.

Section. 2.15 concerned with the practical application of the course design in the form at a Syllabus, Materials, methodology and assessment.

Section. 3 consider the role of the Esp teacher and process information about resources to help the teacher.

Analysis

The writer concluded the previous section by starting that Esp is an approach to language teaching that aims to meet the needs of particular learners. This means the teacher work by Esp is concerned with designing appropriate courses for various groups of learners. Designing a course is fundamentally a matter of asking questions in order to provide a reasoned basis for subsequent processes of Syllabus – design, materials writing, classroom teaching and evaluation. For example of syllabus design can be called with description of language, likes what the grammar used for our learners classical or traditional grammar. Structural linguistic which have any kind likes statement, interrogative, negative and imperative, and also likes time, number, gender, etc. And then the writer tried to give limitation about the material writing that match for the learners. The material of writing or learning must have connected with the learners need, likes science religion, or likes social network in our environment. Although likes that Esp must look about the abilities from the learner and given the differences material according what the learners needs. So Esp can analysis about the material from what are learning must do with the material they get. There many explanation from the course designing for the teacher to the learner by Esp. if these steps ever teacher doing, it means the teacher ever can analysis the situation next the teacher must have or made a Syllabus because language is so complex entity. It cannot be learn in one go and syllabus also gives moral support to the teacher and learner in that it makes the language-learning task appear manageable. So if the syllabus is made to the teacher and the learners. It can make give the large opinion to choose the material. It can be evaluation and can be design with the good model of learning; there are many applications in the Esp after made the course design. That’s have a specific purpose for the teacher and the learner that used of Esp absolutely this way have purpose to make easily understand to learn about Esp. In the Esp, usually has a role to make a stranger about the material, because the most material has many problem or invalid when the teacher given to the learner or when the learner get about the material. There are arises from causes:

1. There is a tradition in education of separating the humanities value and the science language have usually been allocated to the humanities camp.
2. Many material of design course are reluctant settler in the new theoretic.
3. The general materials of design course to be to expect the requirement of the target situation.

There are many problems in the material of design course. That’s make the Esp must have the role about the course of design the role of Esp is very important to involve the wrong way in the English language teaching.

Conclusion:

1.      When learn about the English language must knowing about the based design course of language and must know about our ability and our need about the material.

2.      The material must have a good references, it caused can give the limitation add supporting to find a good model to learn so far about the material. Especially for the language teaching.

Bibliography

Tom Hutchinson and Alanwaterss. 1987. English for Specific Purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University press