ESP

ESP teaching is based on needs analysis. After knowing what students need to know, the teaching material is chosen. Needs analysis will also define the skills the students need to develop first, as well as the genres they need to master.

Comments:

• ESP is primarily aimed at adult learners with specific needs;
• it should also be of a limited duration, like an intensive course;
• it makes use of the underlying methodology and activities of the discipline it serves.

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Bibliography:

Hutchinson, Tom and Alan Waters. English for Specific Purposes. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Dudley-Evans, Tony. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. "English for Specific Purposes". Cambridge University Press, 2001.