reported about an ESP programme introduced in De La Salle University (DLSU), Manila in 1975. In an extensive review on the thirteen years history of the programme, she reported that the teachers often lacked a basic understanding of the principles of second language teaching. The emphasis was on accepting this basic understanding as a crucial concern in teacher training programmes. She emphasized on the acquisition of a solid background in basic linguistics and the principles and practices of second language learning and teaching and believed that such a background might lead to better teaching. ESP as viewed in the Philippines Rough classification of ESP: ESP as Register Analysis ESP as a Rhetorical and Discourse Approach ESP as a Communicative Approach ESP as a Target Situation Analysis Development of ESP in the Philippines Casilda Luzares came back to De La Salle from ESP training at the university of Washington. She introduced the Rhetorical Approach to EST discourse which was highly influenced by Trimble and Solinker. The aim was to bring in theory and practice together to training programmes ESP at De La Salle University Specialists who visited and conducted workshops for Filipino teachers: Richard Noss Bernard Coffey Ray Williams Tom Hutchinson John Swales Take note: No one stage or phase of the ESP development dominates in the Philippines. Today DLSU has an ESP program for its engineering, liberal arts, business, computer science, and science students. It has a Center for English for Specific Purposes, the most extensive collection of books in the country, a journal Teaching English for Specific Purposes and a staff that has been trained abroad and locally in ESP. Networks of ESP in the Philippines Central Luzon State University (Nueva Ecija) Devine Word University (Leyte) University of Southeastern Philippines (Davao) In theory nothing, in practice a great deal Hutchinson et al. (1987)
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