Tailoring Potent Courses for ESP Learners: A Way to Better Fulfil Their Demands

Autor/inn/en	Zaghar, Fatma; Zaghar, El-Alia Wafaâ
Titel	Tailoring Potent Courses for ESP Learners: A Way to Better Fulfil Their Demands
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 12 (2021) 2, S.414-423 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zaghar, Fatma) ORCID (Zaghar, El-Alia Wafaâ)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English for Special Purposes; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Language Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Computer Science Education; Student Attitudes; Positive Attitudes; Needs Assessment; Instructional Design; Learning Motivation; Case Studies; Academic Achievement; Educational Change; Language Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; Algeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Bedarfsermittlung; Lesson concept; Lessonplan; Unterrichtsentwurf; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Schulleistung; Bildungsreform; Sprachverhalten; Algerien
Abstract	In this day and age, it is absolutely indispensable for acquiring competence in English to grapple with the real impediments and huge challenges of the modern epoch. The emergence of English as a global language is among the factors that could explicate its vitality and its expansion. The basic burden of making language courses more relevant to learners' needs resulted in the advent of languages for specific purposes movement, known in English Language Teaching circles as English for Specific Purposes. ESP then, has since its inception in the early 1960s become one of the most dynamic branches of applied linguistics in general, and of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in particular. To amass relevant data, a case study was conducted through a combination of a questionnaire, classroom observation, and informal interviews with language teachers and subject specialists. The main aim of this present paper is to precisely delineate the teaching/learning process of ESP in the department of Computer Sciences at the University of ORAN1 in Algeria, and the learners' attitudes towards this teaching. For this purpose, it is necessary to explore the utility of ESP as perceived by learners, and to address problems faced by instructors. The results indicate that the students have a positive attitude towards ESP and that their poor achievement was due to multiple reasons. This digest concludes by offering some suggestions and implications as remedial actions to the major confronted concerns. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01