Module 02
Roles of the ESP Practitioners
What’s Inside
Roles of the ESP Practitioners
- as teacher
- as researcher
- as collaborator
- as course designer and material provider
- as evaluator
ESP Practitioners as teacher
The teacher is not in the position of being the
‘primary knower’ of the carrier content of the
material. The students may, in many cases,
know more about the content than the teacher.
This provides ESP teacher with the opportunity
to draw on students’ knowledge to generate a
genuine communication in the classroom.
ESP Practitioners as researcher
An ESP practitioner has to go beyond the first
stage of the need analysis – target situation
analysis (TSA) to observe as far as possible the
situation in which students use the identified
skills, and analyze samples of the identified
texts.
ESP Practitioners as collaborator
1. A simply cooperation
2. Specific collaboration
3. Full Collaboration (where a subject expert and
a language teacher team-teach classes)
ESP Practitioners
as course designer and material provider
Teacher is responsible to choose suitable material,
adapting material (when it is not suitable) or
even writing material where nothing suitable
exists.
ESP Practitioners as evaluator
If testing involved in the ESP courses, an ESP
teacher should be able to devise achievement
test to assess how much learners have gained
from a course.
Evaluating course design and teaching materials
should be done while the course is being taught,
at the end of the course and after the course has
finished.
ESP Practitioners as multi-disciplinary activity
ESP work and research has touched many
areas such as cultural aspects, and crosscultural communication, which have a
great impact on the teaching of Business
English.