ESP Learners Research Articles

Towards A Project-Based Approach To ESP Teaching And Learning:, The Case Of Graduate Students Of The Department Of Mathematics At Abbess Laghrour University, Algeria

Towards A Project-Based Approach To ESP Teaching And Learning:, The Case Of Graduate Students Of The Department Of Mathematics At Abbess Laghrour University, Algeria

DEVELOPING E-LEARNING MEDIA FOR ESP LEARNING OF ENGLISH FOR NURSING STUDENTS

The purpose of this research was to develop e-learning media for ESP learning of English for Nursing Students. The development of English for specific needs has rapidly increased as the demand for tailor-made language learning raised. Following the current trend of industrial revolution 4.0, the need of ESP e-learning media is critically necessary. The study used Research & Development (R&D) model. There are some stages in R&D model namely (1) Research and Information Collecting, (2) Planning, (3) Developing Preliminary Form of Product, (4) Preliminary Field Testing, (5) Main Product Revision, (6) Main Field Testing, (7) Operational Product Revision, (8) Operational Field Testing, (9) Final Product Revision and (10) Dissemination and Implementation. However, due to the limitation of the study, only five stages were conducted. The results indicated that the product of e-learning media for ESP learning of English for Nursing students was ready to use

Motivation and strategies in ESP learning and assessment: A case of military English in South Korea

Motivation and strategies in ESP learning and assessment: A case of military English in South Korea

Peculiarities of tablet PC application for ESP learning at agrarian and technical universities

The article presents the analysis of the use of tablet computers for training students of agricultural and technical universities. The statistics confirms the increasing use of computers of this type for studying different disciplines. It is emphasized that the introduction of using tablet computers as an effective tool for learning foreign languages is a crucial problem, despite many positive features. The main advantages and disadvantages of introduction of tablet computers into the educational process are outlined. The advantages of tablet PC application are: easy access to information, use of multimedia and interactivity, better interaction between students and teachers, new ways of document and image processing, possibilities of distant education, reasonable cost. The main disadvantages are vision problems. It is noted that the process of learning a foreign language for special purposes requires the creation of a mixed learning environment, in which a new type of cooperation between teachers and students emerges, and the main purpose of the classes is to solve problems related to the future professional activity in the friendly environment. Certain examples of tablet computer application for learning English for special purposes for students of agricultural and technical specialities are given.

IMPROVING CLASSROOM MATERIALS DESIGN FOR VOCATIONAL ENGLISH TEACHERS AT SAMPANG VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS

Improving the content and classroom materials design for English Classrooms at any vocational high school level is a tough job. English teachers at SMK levels found it challenging to integrate their classrooms materials to fulfill the vocational needs of their students. No denying to the fact that Vocational English has set a different framework compare to general English classes at the similar level of education. This study aims as a joint research partnership and as well as a platform to improve and create variety of English Vocational Materials for SMK classes in Sampang area. Around 7 public vocational high schools were involved in this study, providing a thorough information of its students’ needs for ESP purposes. The materials included knowledge about syllabus writing and the creation of independent teaching materials in the classroom as well as the implementation of reading, writing, and listening and speaking which are targeted to two different goals, UNBK and ESP improvements. The activity of developing English teaching materials is also expected to improve the final results of UNBK Students in English subjects. The study has resulted in the findings of challenges of teaching and developing materials for ESP classes, learning and teaching weaknesses triumph with the models, and the possible future solutions for ESP teaching at SMK level. The study also resulted in the initiative project collaboration with MKKS SMK in Sampang area to pioneer Sampang Vocational Camp 2020.

Developing a curriculum model of English teaching for master’s degree nursing education in a Chinese medicine university

ObjectiveEnglish for Specific Purpose (ESP) is the essence for developing scientific research capacity, which is a core component for postgraduate education. The objective of this article is to develop a curriculum model for ESP of Master’s level nursing education in a Chinese medicine university. MethodA three-year action research approach with continuous reflection and modification was used to develop an ESP curriculum based on the RICH model. A total of 78 students of Master’s Science in Nursing enrolled in 2016–2018 and three course teachers in Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine participated in the study. The ESP curriculum based on the RICH model involved research-based learning topics (R), integrated curriculum(I), cooperative learning methods(C), and humanistic outcome (H). ResultsThe passing rate of the students was 100%, the excellent rate was 79.5%, with an average score of 83.16 ± 3.43. All students were satisfied with the ESP course design and acknowledged the process of “growing up under the pressure”. Four students have published five articles in the journals included by Science Citation Index (SCI). ConclusionsThe study exerted a positive effect on the ESP teaching and learning and provided new ideas for the ESP curriculum integration of Master’s Science in Nursing in China.

Students’ Perceptions of Blended Learning in Mastering English for Specific Purposes

The blended learning has proliferated in recent years to integrate ICT into ESP instruction. Thus, ESP teachers have to acclimatize the feasibility of the advancement in facilitating English instruction for ESP learners. To this end, the present study assayed the ESP students’ perceptions toward the blended learning in mastering English for specific purposes. In the present study, the qualitative approaches were employed based on the questionnaire data. The data gathered from the questionnaire was gauged by descriptive analyses that utilized SPSS 21. The results show that most students get satisfied and enthusiastic to have blended learning of ESP course. However, the classroom interaction by using English and time management skills should be taken into deep concern by English teachers for developing the ESP blended learning course.

Designing a Learning Media of English for Specific Purpose based on Interactive Multimedia (Macromedia flash 0.8) for Agro-Industry Students

The research objective is to design a learning media of ESP using Macromedia Flash 0.8, which can contribute comprehension in learning ESP and presenting the validation of the media. The Procedure development referred to development research that uses model 4D by Borg and Gall. The development consists of 4 steps. They are defined, design, develop, and disseminate. The data ware collected through validation by media experts, material experts, and practitioners using questionnaires and interviews. Then, the data are presented by using tables. The result of validation by media expert on the media developed obtained a total score of 87.5 % belonging to valid with no revision, the result of validation by material expert obtained a total score of 90 %belonging to valid with revision and validation by practitioners obtained a total score of 8.589 % belonging to valid with no revision. The result showed that the use of interactive multimedia by using a Macromedia flash 0.8 is recommended to be implemented because the students can relatively access to media which is operated with android. The result of this research will be used as a matrix for the next research, which is the development of ESP Module based on interactive multimedia.

Evaluating the Communicative Materials on ESP Book Entitled English for International Tourism

ESP is designed for a particular group of people in a specific context. The materials used are related to the learners' specialized field of study. One of the factors which is of utmost importance in language learning in general and ESP in particular is to see whether course books and other materials are useful for the purpose of the course or not. The aim of the paper is evaluating the ESP course book entitled English for International Tourism. Cunningsworth’s (1984) checklist is used to evaluate this book. Instead of the authors’ claim this book is communicative, the evaluation result shows that the exercises within the book mainly use drilling task which means it is more structural rather than communicative.

DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE BY IMPLEMENTING PROJECT BASED-LEARNING IN ESP CLASSES

Higher education plays an important role in developing communicative skills of ESP learners. ESP is oriented towards mastering the skills for professional communication. However, most of the students find themselves incompetent in the course of their work. The article discusses the benefits of using a project work to history students to improve their speaking skills as well as professional communication. The topicality of the article is determined by the fact that the projects proposed have not been actively introduced into curriculum designed for history students. The article is aimed at analyzing the problems the teachers face in teaching process. It proposes six methods for teachers as practical advice that can be used effectively to master students’ speaking skills at the end of the project. The results show that implementing project is very effective in improving speaking, critical thinking skills, creativity, and how to manage the time. The purpose of the article is to encourage ESP students to learn English through introducing new approaches to teaching. The author indicates that applying project work to language learning raises the academic achievement in which students explore the real world challenges.

TURN-TAKING IN CINEMATIC DISCOURSE: LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ESP TEACHING

The article focuses on the issues of teaching turn-taking for ESP students in blended distance learning courses at B2 level. It lays the rationale for the use of film episodes of business interaction in distance learning highlighting turn-taking as an operational meta-discursive category. In multimodal cinematic discourse, turn-taking is performed by heterogeneous semiotic resources: linguistic, non-linguistic, cinematic codes and underpinned by intersubjectivity. Turn-taking strategies of initiating and responding types are viewed as a system of interactional dialogic communication management which includes discursive means of turn-claiming, attempt-suppressing and turn-yielding where each type is actualised by its own set of tactics and techniques. We claim that ESP learners need to know the main parameters for turn-taking in oral professional communication; such as the participants’ stance, speaker – hearer relations and their intersubjectivity, the transition point in a conversation, discourse situations, and specific semiotic resources. In cooperative discourse situations, turn-claiming and turn-yielding strategies are determined by initiating tactics of statement or interrogation. Unlike this, in conflict situations, turn-taking strategies depend upon initiating tactics of statement, interrogation, order, inducement and predetermine responding tactics. In asynchronous and blended formats of distance learning, the preferable delivery methods for this material include video recordings and digital games which facilitate receiving new information and motivate students to practice new communicative skills.

코퍼스 기반 항공 ESP수업의 어휘리스트 개발 : 항공사의 안전매뉴얼(safety manual)을 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to suggest the implication for ESP learners vocabulary list based on Corpus by constructing and analyzing airline’s safety manual. Over the past 10 years in Korea, Corpus based ESP research has been gradually increasing, as it was frequently applied to various fields of English education and related research. Since safety related vocabulary is essential to know as a flight attendant’s duty, Corpus analysis based on Safety manual can be a very efficient approach to delivering content for ESP-related discipline. Therefore, 6 different safety manuals from foreign airlines were collected to make a list followed by extracted from specialized corpus program called AntConc 3.5.7. The total number of word types from all data was 12,841, while token numbers was shown 350,643. The results of analysis are follows. Firstly, total number of 1000 vocabulary list was developed by the order of high frequency. Secondly, lexical bundle list was developed either 3 cluster and 4 cluster. Lastly, the concordance list of vocabulary ‘cabin’ was checked. Based on results of this study, these lists can be used as an important tool for those who are majoring in Airline service at college for ESP class or who is about to join safety training as they are under the training at Airlines. This study has provided a practical way of ESP class by focusing on high frequency vocabulary from data used in actual site that is Airlines.

ICT IN TEACHING ESP TO FUTURE CIVIL ENGINEERS AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

The paper analyses new technologies in teaching ESP to future civil engineers in their professional training. The research was held at the National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine) and involved 86 second-year students majoring in “Civil Engineering” who study full-time. The distance learning profession-oriented course on the Moodle platform was applied in the experimental group as well as a set of intellectual games and brainstorming tasks. The study examined how students majoring in civil engineering perceive the implementation of ICT in the ESP learning environment and how these technologies improve students’ ESP proficiency and their readiness for self-educationand lifelong learning. A student survey was held at the end of the experiment. The analysis of the responses in the questionnaire with open-ended questions revealed that students had positive perceptions of using different forms of ICT in the ESP classroom. After establishing the appropriate psychological and pedagogical conditions, the number of students in the experimental group having the productive and creative levels of readiness to use English in their professional activity have significantly increased compared to the control group. On-line learning enhanced students’ motivation for self-study as well as improved their ESP proficiency.

Static vs. dynamic assessment of students’ writing exams: a comparison of two assessment modes

ABSTRACTThis article is twofold: (a) it explored the impacts of mediation strategies on promoting cognitive modifiability in a dynamic assessment (DA) writing exam among ESP learners, and (b) it compared test-takers’ performance in DA vs. static assessment (SA). The analysis drew on qualitative and quantitative data of a dynamic writing exam of classroom interactions of an experimental group (n = 25) and a Many-Faceted Rasch Measurement (MFRM) analysis of SA of writing test scores of a control group (n = 107). Results showed that, unlike previous studies, DA did not advance test-takers’ current level of thinking into a more developed one nor did it predict better cognitive modifiability. Also, analyses of test scores were not conducive to significant differences in the two groups’ ability. Recommendations called for implementing DA as an additional form of assessment in this EFL context. Pedagogical, research and methodological implications were also highlighted.

Collaborative Learning in ESP Speaking Classroom: Learners’ Perceptions and Experiences

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Implementation of Lesson Study in Supporting the Values of Tudang Sipulung as a Local Culture in ESP Classroom

Lesson Study was firstly applied in Palopo City (Indonesia), and Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo was the only institution, which is entrusted to develop it outside Makassar, as the learning process in 2013 until the present time. The models of cooperative and collaborative learning have indicated the positive thing in improving the material of English for Specific Purposes and reduce the impractical theory-based course, the activities of lesson study are generally run properly and it needs the well-managed scheduled to arrange all the necessary things in it from early to the last cycle of the lesson study. In short, the lesson study is improving the students’ cooperation, collaboration motivation, and initiative in learning ESP course. The sharing and discussion among the lecturers before and after the class is also revitalizing the spirit of traditional local wisdom and values, which is called tudang sipulung, it is clearly seen that the cooperation, collaborative, mutual respects spirit in lesson study is relevant to the local wisdom and supports the local values of tudang sipulung.

TRANSLATION AS A METHOD IN TEACHING ESP: AN INDUCTIVE THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE

Using translation in ESP teaching and learning is an important issue but it has been very scarcely researched so far because of the negative connotations with the grammar-translation method. But since the last decade of the 20th century, revival of interest in the use of translation and use of L1 in foreign language teaching has been noticeable. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to analyse academic publications on the use of translation (and L1) in the ESP teaching and learning in order to see what aspects are raised by researchers and practitioners as regards the efficiency of translation as a teaching method in ESP classes in higher education. The objectives of this paper are: (1) to see what important and telling themes are evident in the selected academic publications, and (2) to analyse the attitudes of the authors of the papers towards using translation as a supplementary teaching method in teaching/learning ESP. For this paper, inductive thematic analysis has been chosen as a useful qualitative analytic method (Brown and Clarke 2006). The data corpus for this paper (14 quality papers) has been collected by conducting a systematic literature search of two academic online databases: EBSCO Academic Search Complete and Web of Science. Initially, emerging themes have been grouped under two headings – learner needs and teaching practices – and elaborated further on as specific themes: defining learner profile, course design, translation as a communicative activity, focusing on accuracy, facilitating understanding, defining specific tasks, consolidating particular skills, balancing the amount of translation in the ESP classroom. The inductive thematic analysis of the academic publications done for this paper shows that translation-based activities are useful for the ESP learner and that translation is an efficient ESP teaching and learning method if the amount of translation done is well-balanced, activities are well-planned and the learner profile and needs in each specific course well-analysed. Translation activities consolidate reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of the ESP learners, facilitate communication and comprehension of a specific field, develop analytic skills and teach to focus on accuracy.

Attitudes towards English and ESP Learning for University Students: The Case of School of Economics and Law in Meknes

This paper reports the results of a research conducted and English and ESP learning attitude in the Moroccan context. The study specifically investigated the language attitude of first-year economy and economy and law master students at the school of Law and Economics in Meknes, (University Moulay Ismail). The results revealed that both undergraduate and graduate students hold a positive attitude towards English and ESP learning at the cognitive, affective and behavioral levels. They also reveal a high degree of motivation in this regard.

EFFECTIVE VOCABULARY TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Communicating in a foreign language is impossible without mastering vocabulary. It is of special importance in English for Specific Purposes (further ESP) courses as requirements of modern realities in Kazakhstan force experts to know enough ESP vocabulary to be able to demonstrate their knowledge in their professional sphere. Since vocabulary plays such an important role in ESP courses it is essential to determine what strategies ensure effective teaching and learning it in specific groups of learners. This paper presents results of a study held on vocabulary teaching and learning strategies employed by ESP teachers and learners at L.N. Gumilyev Eurasian national university (further ENU) in Astana, Kazakhstan. An open-ended questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were conducted among 20 ESP teachers and 48 ESP students of L.N. Gumilyev ENU. The questions elicit not only teachers’ vocabulary teaching experiences and opinions about the most effective vocabulary teaching approaches but also the reasons for students’ vocabulary learning and using problems. During the interview students described their preferred vocabulary learning styles and confirmed the importance of learning vocabulary in ESP. The study determined the most effective ESP vocabulary teaching and learning strategies for teachers to use at L.N. Gumilyev Eurasian National University.

TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TO ADULT LEARNERS AT UNIVERSITY: METHODS THAT WORK

As more and more adults in Ukraine and other countries continue to study throughout their lives and may acquire more than one qualification, the average age of students of higher education institutions is increasing, and therefore the foreign language learning at university should be organised in the same way as with working adults. In this regard, it is important to understand that a modern student is an adult learner who has a number of characteristic features that distinguish him/her from a child as a learner and thus should be considered in the learning process. In our article, based on the practical experience of English language teachers of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, we aim to show how specific features of adults as learners can be considered in teaching ESP and what learning methods can be most appropriate for that purpose. We conducted a mini-research among 12 English teachers of Department of English for Engineering, who had the opportunity to work with both children and adult learners. As a data collection tool, we used an open-ended questionnaire which included three questions concerning their perception of university students as adult learners, importance of creating favourable learning climate, methods, and technologies they find most effective and motivating for adult students. As shown by the results of our survey, teachers find interactive ESP learning methods and techniques the most effective, since they most fully involve adult students in self-directed learning, permit taking into account characteristic features of adults as learners, make learning a collaborative process involving cooperation between all the participants as the main driving force of the learning process.