Teaching ESP
Teaching ESP

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays teaching English for Specific Purposes has become a priority in most technical universities. The technical faculties require their students to study a course in a foreign language. Most students choose English, and their choice is a legitimate one. The term “specific” in ESP refers to the specific purpose for learning English. Today English is used by the specialists from different countries both to exchange information and experience and to communicate. ESP is oriented towards mastering skills for professional communication. English for Specific Purposes courses combine subject matter and English language teaching. This helps students to apply what they learn during the ESP courses to their own field of study, whether it be electronics and telecommunications, computer science, or mechanics, etc. The aim of our paper is to present some of the problems and difficulties the ESP teacher has to face during the teaching process. The first year students in our university have foreign languages on the curricula as an obligatory subject (discipline) 2 hours per week. The number of the students in the group varies between 30 and 50, and their level of language is different. Consequently it is the teacher’s responsibility to establish what to teach and how to teach a foreign language according to the objective professional needs of the future specialists. In addition to master a foreign language needs time and maybe the limited period of ESP courses makes some of the students lose interest in learning foreign language.

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