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Tas 3 – Variables for Designing an ESP course
Scenario Analysis E
Within the different ways to teach English are presented various scenarios where the
teacher needs to implement some strategies, methods in every situation with students who
have many needs at the time to learn English. In fact, speaking in English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) is different. In this essay It is going to analyze certain important aspects
such as: steps, variables, methods and resources; precisely in order to sort out this
E. A flight attendant is hiring you because she has a month to take an English exam
by means of which she may be promoted to a better position at the airline she works for.
She has a B1 level of English and manages a good range of vocabulary. She speaks with
some fluency but needs to prepare for the writing, language use and reading parts of the
exam.
We certainly have a very common case regarding people who work as stewardesses
on airplanes and different public transports. In this case there is a stewardess who has a
certain need in the English language considering that she wants to be in a better position at
her job. Therefore, in order to achieve the objective, we must follow the following steps: a)
Identify the needs of the objective; Collect target information; c) Analyze the information
and d) Design a study plan. Where a) The stewardess's need is to be able to deepen her
writing, speaking and reading
comprehension skills, in order to be able to take the exam; John Munby (1978) describes it
where the following questions will be presented: a) What are the learning strategies that
you have used in your training process? B) What is the purpose of deepening the
following skills: writing and speaking? C) In what environments or contexts will you use
the language? According to this information, the objectives, strategies and skills to be
developed are already known. C) Based on the previous information taken, the information
will be analyzed, using the following questions: What is your academic training? What
types of techniques are not favorable in your process and which are not? What time
intensity do you prefer for this training? Finally, what is the learning environment where
you feel comfortable studying? Considering as a basis, the James B. Herbolich kite box
project (1979). With first steps we will be able to understand from a more general
framework the situation of the stewardess, her objectives, learning strategies, expectations
regarding the course; to be able to plan in the best way the curricular mesh by units.
English, more practical and flexible methods can be used, using certain resources. I would
develop in the student the listening ability and at the same time comprehensive. Using
since it looks for topics of interest and through it it deepens in grammar and reading
comprehension. Using resources such as: Dictations, written exercises, stories on topics of
interest, text translation and reading. As a third aspect. The activities to be developed in
each method are more effective if they are used in 90% using ICTs (Information and
Communication Technologies). On the other hand, since the training time is only 1 month,
the hourly intensity should be 5 hours per week, 1 hour per day.
Finally, cases like this are always presented, and in these situations is where the
ESP is applied to form a specific plan for teaching English, with direct, effective structures
and that clearly if carried out taking into account each step, it will be possible to have a
very good result. The stewardess will develop not only the writing and reading skills that
are precisely the ones requested, but also the communication skills that, although she is not
Scenario analysis C
way to fulfill the standard of teaching-learning model making fulfill the objectives posed in
its curriculum, but many times without taking into account the real learning needs of their
students; As every student aspires to learn according to their prior knowledge ; the method
of teaching which they like to strengthen the
shortcomings of learning that are motivating frequently ,that they teach in a playful themes
to encourage class participation among others. In addition to the teacher becomes the
companion that generates confidence to ask concerns and not the authoritarian professor
Therefore knowing that there are many learning needs in different contexts as the
teaching of English in other subjects for this reason we will analyze the following scenario:
C. Two parents are planning to live abroad with their two children in one years, and
they are looking for an English Tutor who can help their son and daughter of 12 years old
to have a smoother transition to a science class. These two children have gone to a bilingual
school for 2 years, but for some reason the science teacher talked more in Spanish than in
English during his class, and for this reason the children were not familiarized with enough
English vocabulary on science topics. Their parents want their children to learn and master
the science vocabulary used for 6th and 7th grade. The children are pretty good at learning
According to the above scenario we can deduce that the teacher must first identify
what are the strengths and weaknesses of children making them a diagnostic evaluation as
the document in English for specific purposes 6- need analysis where specifies that it is
necessary to know what the student already knows so that you can decide which lacks and
needs in this way to build a support plan in learning the vocabulary unknown in science; it
is also important that parents of children who seek a right teacher so that they can provide a
significant learning in its shortcomings
which have qualities such as : experience in pedagogy in the use of technology; as children
It should be noted that these children were two years in a bilingual school the
teacher then must identify which both know in order to design materials and methodologies
to strengthen the vocabulary of science that children need. Secondly, the teacher must
speak with the science teacher for collecting data about that topic is going to teach for
himself to teach him his two students; as if they are taught different vocabulary to which
they are going to need in their science classes the children are going to confuse and not be
able to improve the vocabulary they really need. On the other hand the teacher must
perform a framework of analysis of the situation objective how raises the document English
for specific purposes 6- need analysis must solve some specific questions such as:
¿How will the language be used? The teacher is going to prepare to acquire the four
¿What will the content areas be? We already know are the sciences
¿Who will the learner use the language with? The children used it with his
¿Where will the language be used? The children will use it in the classroom with
clarity on the framework of analysis of the situation the teacher must inquire more about his
the learning needs raised in document English for specific purpose 6-need analysis; ¿what
do you think students who achieved? ¿ How do the learners learn? What methodology will
appeal to them? ¿Who are the learners? What sort of techniques are likely to bore/alienate
them?
Already having answer to these questions the teacher can begin to design
methodologies, according to the variables of the situation that are age: 12 years, in the
country that are going to be living abroad, sixth and seventh grade, time: two years have
studied in the bilingual school, it should note that the children are pretty good at learning
English, but do not understand the specific vocabulary quite well. The teacher will all the
information can to know what methodology is most suitable for them which likewise is
that the teacher must use teaching methods making use of technology so the children are
Fourthly according to resources or materials I would think that the teacher should
implement in each of the classes lessons to support children taking into account their age
and the degree; that is to say that these activities are focused on their ages and grades and
therefore the vocabulary they need in their science classes as making use of videos, didactic
readings, games and interactive activities
encouraging children to discover their capabilities and are able to participate, understand in
their science classes a significant vocabulary English vocabulary in the field of science;
there are many ICT tools for the classroom science that will help to enhance the skills at the
identifying the real needs of learning in students are going to be able to ensure that their
students improve their academic level, strengthening their skills during the learning a
foreign language where they leave well prepared and able to respond to different
Edwin Martinez
INTRODUCTION
adequate use of teaching methods to apply according to factors such as needs, desires,
objectives and motivations that the learner has to achieve his specific purpose in learning
English.
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
Scenario analysis
A doctor is hiring you to prepare him
for a job interview that he will have in 3 months, for a new position. He has a B2 English
level and a good range of vocabulary related with his profession, but he lacks fluency and
confidence to speak because he has not found anyone to practice with, therefore he decides
to hire you to prepare him for this specific purpose. He would like to reinforce his speaking
According to the author’s ideas the analysis of the needs of the target situation is
essentially a question of asking questions about the target situation and the attitudes
towards that situation of the various participants in the learning process. Hutchinson, T., &
Waters, A. (1987); that is why in the case of the doctor who wants to improve their level of
English it is clear that the analysis answers the questions of how the language will be used
and why it is necessary to improve weaknesses such as fluency and confidence when giving
an interview or conference related to knowledge in the area of medicine that he already has.
program within the curriculum of a language class has been specifically studied. Munby
(1978) argues that a good analysis of constant needs in two parts: the needs focused on the
objective, that is, in the specific situations in which the student is going to use the language
they are going to learn, and on the other hand, student-centered needs is that is, the
knowledge and lacks that the student possesses when the course begins. In doctor´s case his
lack of fluency in the ability to speak in the English language is known, and their need to
improve in this aspect is also known, which can focus the teaching method through
needs, lacks and his objective the teacher have to take interactive tools based on
learning claims on student mastery of prodigious lists of vocabulary pairs and, indeed,
suggests to the students that it is appropriate that they set such goals for themselves.
Finally knowing that the doctor's motivation is focused on achieving a new position
in their employment, they can channel these efforts into activating their confidence to
express in the English language with the help of the using of elements such as technologies
chat, web conferences, recordings, videos, images and presentations to allow the learner
achieve an optimal level, the teacher can guide the learner to his objective.
CONCLUSION
In order to properly design an ESP course, it is necessary to focus on the learner, get
to know him and give him the necessary tools to achieve his learning objectives in his
specific area.
Scenario Analysis
Teaching ESP, which aims to meet
asking questions in order to provide a reasoned basis for the subsequent processes of
syllabus design, materials writing, teaching and evaluation. I think that it's relevant the
approach with their know how to do and its know how to be, besides allow the knowledge
transfer from the perspective of the methodology, didactic, behaviorist, but always with the
English teacher to prepare her for a language test. In the context this student already has an
English level of B1 and is highly motivated to graduate as soon as possible, but she lacks
the ability in the receptive skills of listening and reading comprehension. Therefore, she
wants the tutor to help her prepare on these two areas for the exam to achieve at least a B2
level. She has a language according to the context, with a sequentially in: Listen, speak,
read and write, she must have motivated spaces to practice and improve the capacities and
abilities, it also shows a series of variables that are useful for teaching English learning.
First of all, she needs to graduate, but lacks the capacity of the receptive skills
¡Lack of listening and reading comprehension! In this case the student should be clear that
all process carries some requirements to can comply the goals; the student must commit and
motivate to obtain the level B2 that she wishes for your bachelor in English.
The teacher in this context has a
great job in the pedagogic field because it is vital that are interested for the performance of
their students, and having the greatest satisfaction of teaching English, teaching in the best
way, so the students to learn and develop their potential to put into practice in their daily
In other hand the listening practice skill or her is very important because through is
questions, the listening sub-skills are evaluated. Among these are: identifying main idea or
purpose, noting details, making connections, concluding, determining tones and attitudes,
identifying organization or even summarizing. Under different settings and contexts.in her
situation this is a great solution for improve the receptive skills. In the Reading she has to
improve her comprehension skills may be evaluated in distinguishing main idea from
supporting ideas, identifying main topic, extracting details, identifying key words,
recognizing vocabulary and understand its meaning, getting important information, making
inferences, understanding author’s view, and even summarizing sentences and passages.
The tasks require skills, techniques and even previous knowledge to identify correct
answers.
INTRODUCTION
principal international language of science and is looked upon as an effective means for
enabling those students to become familiar with professional texts written in English...
since books, papers, handbooks, and journals written in English are included in their
reading lists. After graduation one of the most valuable resources of these students will be
English in the workplace. However, preliminary discussions with these revealed that they
perceive the English courses offered to them up to then in their field of study as deficient to
account for their future job requirements. This study, therefore, attempted to investigate the
propose a more efficient model of syllabus design based on the respondents ‘vocational
related with coffee plantations, production, machinery and refinement processes, thus they
have the whole knowledge about the coffee process and exactly that is what the people and
investors want to know about. That’s why, they are so important for the company because
about the knowledge they know how to do and the experience also they have. We need also
that everyone can get good communicate between each other because the investors they
want to know of course about what they are going to invest the money and the rentability it
can make for them, not only them also the visitors coming want to know about the technical
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
Scenario Analysis A
You have been hired by a young
tourist guide who already has an English level of B2, and who is highly motivated to get a
better job opportunity at a banana plantation. In three months, this banana plantation is
expected to hire new staff with a general knowledge of English, who is also familiar with a
specific vocabulary related with banana plantations, production, machinery and distribution
processes to be able to explain to foreign business investors and/or visitors all the steps
required for the development and completion of the product, meanwhile they are showed
English for specific purposes, or ESP, is the teaching of the English language for
and formal structures that will be used especially in a specific field, etc. in this case we’ll
When we start a course of these, the first thing we have to take into account are the
needs of the students, identify these needs and the capacities imply to identify the functions
need determined by the demands of the target situation, that is, what the learner has to
The staff who will be hired at the coffee plant should have general knowledge of
English, and who is also familiar with a specific vocabulary related to coffee plantations,
investors and/or visitors all the necessary steps for the development and completion of the
For the design of the ESP course we must make a Curriculum, materials,methodology
Listen, read, speak and write: these are the four basic language skills. In this course these
tour guide skills should be emphasized in listening and speaking, however, no skill should
be taught in isolation.
We must bring to class all the useful vocabulary on the subject of coffee production.
Match the students and give them a theme about coffee production and collection
each student becomes a speaker or listener when he or she has finished speaking.
Practice, Practice, use the words as often as possible and in as many ways as
possible. Say, write, and point to the words in all appropriate contexts. When an
appropriate time comes up, not only
should you repeat the word clearly, but have all of the students repeat after you to
dictating, read the whole sentence at normal speed three times, allowing time for
Debating. You can divide students into teams and have those present opposing sides
of an issue.
Giving directions; for example, looking at a map and explaining how a person
It is useful to build the lessons around a common format. For example, every Monday the
class can start with a listening activity and then have a series of reading activities.
On Wednesday you can work on grammar and writing. Having a common format in
the classes gives us a framework on which to build each unit and helps students get used to
a teaching routine.
To determine if you have reached the
From the 1960s, the demand for specialized language programs grew through the
ESP(English for Specific Purposes) movement and applied linguists increasingly began to
employ needs analysis procedures, particularly in relation to English for specific purposes
and vocationally oriented program design (Richards , 2001) Richterich (1983) defines the
both on the individuals or groups of individuals who are to learn a language and on the use
which they are expected to make of it” .In another definition of needs analysis, Nunan
Brindley (1989) differentiates between objective and subjective needs. Objective needs as
those which are derivable from different kinds of factual information about learners, their
use of language in real life communicative situations as well as their current language
proficiency and language difficulties” . To assess objective needs, a need analyst may
include information about students’ background (e.g. country, culture, education, family,
profession, age), their proficiency in different language practices, and their needs as far as
the language use outside the class is concerned. Subjective needs, on the other hand, are
obtained from the learners themselves. They include the cognitive and affective needs of
the learner in the learning situation, derivable from information about affective and
expectations with regard to the learning of English and their individual cognitive style and
learning strategies. That’s why on this
circumstance what I would recommend is just keeping the people busy learning English
every day as much possible making knowledge about how to talk about the job they are
doing and how to develop a conversation about and teaching them the most possible
questions they can hear by the people around, how to answer of course and what to do on
this circumstance On the another aspect we have also our another motivated friend who we
have to teach in another ways, how to treat whit our sponsors just as neatly way we can,
teaching him to get in touch whit them, like that with intense program every day every time
until reach the time over to make the goal we want to score.
Pons (2001) emphasizes that an instructor who is aware of the educational needs of
analysis may serve three basic purposes: it can be used as a means of getting wider input
into the content, design, and implementation of a language program; it can be implemented
in defining goals, objectives, and content; and its data can be used to review and evaluate a
current program. Long (2005: 2-18) Refers to growing demands for accountability and
relevance in public life to justify the need for performing needs analyses to create syllabi
which can meet the needs of the learners as fully as possible. Accordingly, every language
course should be viewed as a course for specific purposes which just varies in the precision
with which learner needs can be specified. Valdez (1999:8) also suggests that the results of
needs analyses can be used to modify and improve existing programs. Researchers have
also realized that focusing on the reasons why learners need to learn a foreign language will
enable language teaching professionals to meet their learners’ specific needs and save a lot
of time and energy. This is mainly because trying to teach the whole of a foreign language
requires more time and effort. In relation to
language practices, the results of a comparison between the language components that
made up the English courses for engineering students and the vocational needs mentioned
by the respondents revealed that these courses did serve those needs. The findings revealed
that there were many English language sub-practices that the students had to know in order
to function effectively in the workplace. The English sub- practices that the students had
acquired from the previous English practices attended to their needs for general English.
These mainly include: writing assignments, reading course handouts, following lectures,
reading study notes, listening to instructions for assignments, and writing test/exam
answers. Interestingly enough, all these language sub-practices have been perceived by the
respondents as useless in the workplace because their future occupation requires such skills
like: reading technical catalogues, writing professional emails, giving spoken presentations,
watching and listening to video conferences in this case related with the production of
coffee plantation this way to give the correct information to people who is looking for that
type of knowledge.
about this language since it is the universal language, and there is a need to learn how to
handle it since it influences the social, economic and cultural environment. We are
surrounded by this language but unfortunately, there is very little interest except when we
are exposed to a job, that's where we see the need to learn it, that's why I think it's very
important to start infusing this language from childhood so that you have an idea of another
language since ESP is based on how to understand and learn English from the beginning
and relate it to our language since language is excluded a bit. It is complex for people who
do not use English and do not put it into
practice English for specific purposes focuses on a way of designing how to teach it to
students and make it understood in a way that they can interpret it and speak about it.
The teacher is the main part in the classroom where he is the only subject who
understands and interprets the language and therefore must be willing to detect the lack of
knowledge of his students and how he can help them to interpret this language to have
better communication between them, is the communicating person among their students to
be able to make the classes enjoyable and to develop the activities with an optimal
performance of trust where their students feel that their answers and concerns are solved to
fullness and are understood by the only character that has certainty about English which
should look for alternatives as for good development of activities for their apprentices, it is
not the same to teach an adult with a degree of management in this field, to teach people
who have not had enough relationship with English that is why management is very
Without forgetting that ESP is designed to meet the specific needs of a group for the
same disciplines a similar distinction for example for business, tourism, engineering,
is an objective need. who understands and analyzes the situation of destiny trust in their
listening skills, the perception of the need for more vocabulary. However, a high priority is
placed on the needs analysis and the various
approaches described above. I believe that the key stage of the ESP course design and the
development of materials is the necessary action following this stage of needs. The next
stage is when the ESP teacher considers the (written or spoken) texts that the student has to
produce and understand tries to identify the key of the texts presented and designs a
didactic material that allows the students to use the texts of an effective way
The work of ESP has therefore always been interested in the structure of discourse
Help to expand this basic knowledge, in a didactic way, supporting the student, in
the practice of social interaction and the negotiation of meanings. Also, improve your
ability to establish relationships with other people and to cope with new situations. Given
the nature of the different competences that develop in learning, from a foreign language,
the individual increases their awareness of how to learn. In this case, the need to acquire
more knowledge, deeper by a different need of life will facilitate learning and that is where
the teacher comes to play his very important role where he should argue and analyze how
much capacity he can explore in these guys since it is the only person who manages this
language and they will focus on him, to clear doubts and concerns, one of the advantages is
that here there will be a personalized teacher, who will be willing to answer your questions
and focus more on this field that they require, it is very important to interact and bring this
more to the daily life that the student or the people are facing, without neglecting grammar
and linguistics.
CONCLUSION
all carried out by analyzing the students’ learning ability in speaking course. Learning
ability is measured based on the result of analysis of the students’ prociency level in the
order to achieve effective instructional outcomes. Besides this, it can help educators and
administrators to gain awareness of the context variable and program designers to provide
/educators and students generally vary across time, instructional contexts, the requirement
of an ongoing needs assessment for any educational institution becomes crucial in order to
Conclusion
The process of identification is first of all carried out by analyzing the students’
learning ability in speaking course. Learning ability is measured based on the result of
analysis of the students’ prociency level in the area of the three speaking components
vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
COMPARATIVE CHART
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