Assessing Students’ Disciplinary Content Knowledge in Selected Disciplinary Genres
Assessing Students’ Disciplinary Content Knowledge in Selected Disciplinary Genres

Summary/Abstract: English for Specific Purposes was included in language teaching programs toprepare students for future job roles by enhancing students’ specialized communication –vocabulary, grammar, tone, style and mechanics. Nowadays, to meet students’ underlyingneeds, we are challenged to diversify our teaching methods and find innovative ways tokeep students focused on the tasks. Test papers are designed to highlight the competence ofusing the language in authentic, everyday situations, covering economic, social andcultural aspects that are part of the environment in which the students will live and work.Syllabus redesign, materials design, careful materials selection and proactive teaching forvarious ESP contexts will enhance students’ soft skills and will ensure a betteremployability of applicants (students).With this in mind, the current paper set out to explore the tertiary level students’common mistakes in test papers scheduled in the end of-academic semester to identify theirstrengths, gain a better understanding of their weaknesses, and consequently assess ifstudents have acquired sufficient disciplinary content knowledge to write in future selecteddisciplinary genres such as journal articles and thematic projects for workshoppresentations.

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