A Content-based English Listening and Speaking Class for Hospitality Purposes

Abstract

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching satisfactory outcomes corresponding with preordained objectives. A variety of teaching and learning activities are applied within the framework of the Whole English Approach, such as lectures in an English-medium fashion, grammar understanding and practice, audio-lingual teaching activities as well as cooperative group and pair works. Cooperative team works function to enhance learning effects and motivation. Students’ performance on two oral presentations illustrate itself as learner-centered output productions in the teaching and learning process, which adds to their learning outcomes in terms of communicative performance in a behavioral fashion. This lesson plan provides an example for EFL teachers who are interested or put endeavors in teaching ESP, especially for hospitality purposes.