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approach ESP and course design



CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

According to Tom Hutchinson & Alan Waters Lancaster (1986), “English for Specific Purposes is teaching which has specified objectives”. English Language world got a long well enough without it for many years, so why has ESP became such an important part of English Language Teaching? In ESP students hope by learning ESP can serve as a guide to all present and future and inhabitant of ESP, revealing both the challenges and pleasures to be enjoyed there and the pitfalls to be avoided. The writer make this book in order we will not only explain our reason for writing it but will also be able to presents a plan of the itinerary we shall follow, the ESP is related to learning central approach because in development ESP has paid scant attention to the questions of how people learn, focusing instead on the question of what people learn. 


CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION

A.    ESP: Approach Not Product
ESP all essentially emphasize to language centred approaches and to give a definition of ESP we need to establish a context about how ESP at the present time relates to the rest of ELT.
In the time honoured manner of Linguistics, we shall represent the relationship in the form of a tree. They represent some of the common divisions that are made in ELT. The topmost branches of the tree show the level at which individual ESP courses occur. This level divided into two main types of ESP according to whether the learner requires english for academic study, they are EAP (English for Academic Purpose of for work/training) and EOP,EVP,VESL (English for Occupational Purpose/English for Vocational Purpose/Vocational English as a Second Language)
At the next level down, ESP courses distinguished by the general nature of the learner's specialism. Three categories are identified here, they are : EST (English for Science and Technology), EBE (English for Business and Economics) and ESS (English for the Social Sciences).
Next level, we can see that ESP is just one branch of EFL/ESL which are themselves the main branches of English language teaching in general. ELT is one variety of the many possible kinds of language teaching. As we know that, a tree cannot survive without roots. In this case, the roots which nourish the tree of ELT are communication and learning. The analogy of a tree above showing to us what ESP isn't. Here they are :
1.      ESP is not a matter of teaching ''specialized varieties'' of English because the fact that language is used for a spesific purpose. There are some features which can identified as ''typical'' of a particular context of use, and which , so, the learners is more perhaps to meet in the target situation.
2.      ESP is not just a matter of science words and grammar for scientist, so on. When we look at the tree, there's actually much hidden from view inside and beneath the tree although we know the leaves and the branches. They are supported by a complex underlying structure. The point is we need much more communication than just the surface features of what we read and hear and also we need to distinguish between performance and competence in relation to what people actually do with the language and the range of knowledge and abilities which can enables them to do it.
3.      ESP is not different in kind from any other form of language teaching. It based on the principles of effective and efficient learning. Eventhough the content of the learning is different, the proccesses of learning should be any different for the ESP learner than for the general english learner.[1]
ESP is different from the form of ELT because ESP must be seen as an approach not as a product. ESP is not a particular kind of language or methodology, nor does it consist of a particular type of teaching material. ESP is an approach to language learning, which is based on the learners' need. So, we conclude that ESP is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learners' reason for learning.

B.     A System Approach to Course Design
Course Design is a phased process that is supported by the CourseSpace software. The following diagram situates the course design process in the broader learning and teaching cycle at CSU. The course design, development and implementation process is an iterative process. Courses or degrees are identified for design during the selection phase and may be brand new or under review. During the preparation phase course teams are established and course leaders prepare for the design process, including setting up a CourseSpace where the team will engage in communication, design, feedback and approval processes. The course design process consists of components that build the design of a course in three phases. Feedback from and approval of the design by Faculty Course Committee occurs at the waypoint for each design phase. Throughout the preparation, design and development processes course teams and their stakeholders share feedback that informs the design in an iterative process. Evaluation from the implementation process feeds into the selection and design phases.
The components in each phase of the course design process consist of:
·         Design Phase 1: Baseline, Standards and Products
·         Design Phase 2: Assessment and Subject Design
·         Design Phase 3: Module Design
For further details on the course design process see the How To Manuals, which provide:
·         Overviews of the process elements; 
·         how to descriptions of each component; and 
·         CourseSpace help guides for each component.
The following elements are integral to the course design process:
1.      Course Performance and market analysis to inform the initial planning of the work to be done; a clearly defined process that supports course directors in planning and completing the work of a course review.
2.      Integrated course-level standards drawn from CSU Graduate Learning outcomes, AQF learning outcomes and Professional Standards. Evidence of the achievement of the standards is described in a set of definable products, that are tangible evidence of student achievement of skills, knowledge and skill application that reflect the world of work.
3.      Constructive alignment across the course learning experiences that support students to demonstrate their capabilities and achievement of course-level standards.
4.      Authentic and Criterion/standards based assessment tasks that map to course-level standards and/or subject-level learning outcomes and have clearly defined assessment criteria that makes explicit to the student what they need to achieve in order to pass (or receive a higher grade for) the task.
5.      Intentionally designed learning experiences and module content that directly map to the subject outcomes and the relevant assessment tasks to demonstrate how students will learn what they need to know to successfully achieve the course outcomes.
6.      Collaborative work within a course team and across faculties and divisions at CSU, enabling multiple perspectives on the work of course design, and distributed leadership within a course team.
7.      Emergent feedback at each stage of the design/review process, supporting ongoing development work that is iterative and responsive to the feedback, and course approval.
8.      The course design process is supported by the CourseSpace, a bespoke software, that enables:

C.    Approaches to Course Design
Course design is the process by which raw data about the needs of students interpreted agara produce various interpretations of teaching experience.
1.      Language-centered course design (Design Course Oriented Language)
Aiming to describe a direct connection between the target and situation analysis of the content of the course ESP. However, it seems logical and simple, but it has few drawbacks:
a.       Starting from the students and their needs
b.      Process oriented language can also be criticized for static procedures and infleksibel
c.       One interesting feature of this model is a systematic nampkanya
d.      Model oriented language does not give recognition to the factors that should definitely play a role in creating some courses
e.       Analysis of the data-oriented language situation in the average level targets
2.      Skills-centered course design (Design Course Oriented Skills)
Formed in two basic principles, namely:
a.       Hipotesis basic theory underlines that some habits of language is a skill and a certain strategy, which students use to generate discourse discussion.
b.      Pragmatic basic  obtained from the difference made by Widdowson (1981) between the goals of the original course and process of the original course.
3.      A learning-centered approach (approach Berorienatsi on Learning)
Based on the principle that learning is determined by teachers in total. Learning is seen as a process in which students use the knowledge or skills they have to make sense of the flow of new information. In conclusion, we must look beyond the competence that allows one to perform, because what really we want to write is not the competence itself, but how does one get it.
Two implications oriented approach pemebelajaran:
a.       The design of the course is the negotiation process
b.      The design of the course is a dynamic process[2]
Needs analysis states that the ESP students need English to be able to read text in their subject specialization. The list of questions could be used to design keefktifan ESP courses. A situational analysis of targets has direct effects on the development of the syllabus, materials, methodologies, and test. Course design process should be more dynamic and interactive. This is called learning-oriented approach, the approach with the goal of full potential of learning situations.


CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION

The main factors in the origin of ESP that the Linguistic factor dominate the ESP’s development that focus on the nature of specific varieties of language use. In tree of ELT, it shown that they are primarily concerned with communication and learning. ESP is not a language product but as an approach to language teaching which is directed by specific and apparent reasons for learning. Course design is the process by which raw data about the needs of students interpreted agara produce various interpretations of teaching experience.
1.      Language-centered course design (Design Course Oriented Language)
2.      Skills-centered course design (Design Course Oriented Skills)
3.      A learning-centered approach (approach Berorienatsi on Learning)


REFERENCES

Hutchinson, T., & Waters, A. 1987. English for Specific Purposes: A learning- centered approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dudley-Evans, T., & St John, M. 1998. Developments in ESP: A multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998



[1] Ä. Hutchinson, T., & Waters, A. English for Specific Purposes: A learning- centered approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,  1987. p. 13
[2]  Dudley-Evans, T., & St John, M. Developments in ESP: A multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 221

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