Teachers’ Professional Qualifications from an ESP Perspective: Challenging the Traditional EFL Context
Teachers’ Professional Qualifications from an ESP Perspective: Challenging the Traditional EFL Context

Summary/Abstract: In an attempt at maintaining balance between the requirements of different situations; being academic or professional and the increasingly developed demands of technology, economy and sciences, ESP courses, in Algeria, are implemented nationwide and are believed to be of worthy value for ESP learners. However, language teachers who are considered as key-parameters in the ESP teaching situation claim their inadequacy for the teaching positions they are, currently, taking part in as they consider themselves as non-specialized teachers who have just shifted to a strange land. Hence, throughout this paper, and after presenting and discussing the results of a careful analysis of the language teachers’ wants and lacks which has been conducted at the level of Abou-Bekr Belkaid University of Tlemcen , ALGERIA, ESP practitioners are called to adopt positive attitudes toward the fields they are concerned with, to better articulate and respond to their learners’ needs. To meet this end, language teachers are invited to be ready to accept change and innovation as re-considering their qualifications for a better professionalization of the whole process of language teaching for, more or less, a definite purpose, should take place as an urgent response.

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