ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

English For __Criminologist Students___

Course Title:__English For Criminologist students____

Course Description : This course is for prepared for Criminology students learning English to acquire and develop English language knowledge and
skills. The course is defined according to their needs and it aims to prepare students to use English for their Professional studies and subsequently for
their professional needs in real life and future career. This course will further give students the opportunity to speak on general topics, communicate and
express ideas, understand texts and information and write properly.

Learning Outcome :

At the end of course,the students should be able to:

 to provide material for the students to learn pronunciation of the English sounds, to learn to read, write, and to know the
fundamentals of English grammar and vocabulary;
 to develop the students' reading skills to enable them to skim an adapted text for main idea, to scan an adapted text for specific
information, to interpret an adapted text for inferences;
 to develop the students' writing skills to enable them to respond to input applying information to a specified task, to elicit, to select,
to summarize information
 to develop the students' listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information from the input
 to develop the students' speaking skills to enable them to use general, social and professional language
 to develop the students' general capacity to a level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic environment
Course Outline and Timeframe
Week Topics

1 Adjective

2 Parts of a paragraph

3 Subject-Verb agreement

4 Writing a paragraph

5 Complex sentence

English for Criminologist students learning Plan

 Learning Outcome Topics Methodology/Acti Resources/Materials Assessment
vity

-express one’s Adjective Discussion -Sample text journals, -Reflection

thoughts and ideas newspaper and
Expressing Oneself
clearly magazines.
-Reading a Poster -Answered activities
-give descriptions of
individuals, events or - Giving Descriptions -Answering
-Videos about the
things Comprehension
speaking for better -Writing Tasks
Questions
- use appropriate communication.
-Asking and Answering -Quizzes about identifying
words in asking and -Vocabulary
Questions adjectives
giving of information Building
Textbook and
-use appropriate
Workbooks about part
intonation and stress
-Grammar of speech.
-listen to a -Using Appropriate Checking
conversation and take Intonation and Stress
note of important
detail -Listening to a
-Listening for Notes Conversation
taking
 -Paired Speaking
Task

-Writing a Poster

-identify main ideas -Identifying Main Ideas -Reading of an -Lecture Handouts -Short quiz on Oral
and find the and Finding Supporting Article about Oral Communication,
supporting details details Communication
(Republic Act
-distinguishing fact -Distinguish Fact from No.4136, LTO -Books about Reading
-Essay on the fact and
from opinion Opinion Code) Comprehension skills,
opinions.
Grammar organizer,
-understand traffic -Understanding Traffic -Answering
Arts and Literature -Reflections
signs and signals Signs and Signals Comprehension
Questions
-summarize a read text -Summarizing a Text
-Vocabulary -Identifying parts of
Building paragraph

-Grammar
Checking

-Watching News
 report
-Simulation on
Providing First Aid

-Writing a
summary

-understand and -Understanding and -Brainstorming -Lecture handouts and -Short quiz on Visual
interpret visual images Interpreting Visual projected slides about Literacy
-Reading of an
images Visual Literacy.
-obtain gist from Article
information read -Obtaining Gist from
(Support Aircraft) -Reflection
information read
-deducing meaning of -Books on reading
-Answering -Picture analysis
difficult words -Deducing Meaning of visual images .
Comprehension
Difficult Words
-construct sentences Questions
properly and use -Structuring Sentences -Exercises on
-Analyzing Ship -Reading materials
correct punctuation Subject-verb agreement
-Using Correct Structure
-Video exercise on
Punctuatio
-Vocabulary Subject –verb
Building agreement

-Grammar
Checking
 -Listening to a
Conversation

- Role playing

-Writing a weekly
ship inspection
report

-make use of -Using Appropriate -Watching a Video -Module on effective -Essay

appropriate vocabulary Vocabulary Clip writing.
-Reflection
-following directions -Following Directions -Answering -Videos on following
-Writing a paragraph
correctly Comprehension directions correctly
-Paragraph Writing
Questions -Identifying parts of
-write a paragraph -lecture and Handouts
paragraph
-Discussion
About writing a
-Vocabulary paragraph
Building

-Grammar
 Checking

-Listening to a
Radio

-understand complex -Understanding complex - Answering a -Slides and videos -Short quiz on sentence
sentences sentences puzzle about complex structure
sentence.
-analyze and evaluate -Analyzing and -Reading of an -Reflections
a crime Evaluating a Crime Article
-Essay
- predict an outcome - Predicting an outcome (Transnational -Books on stylistics
-Oral recitation
and respond critically and Responding Crime)
-Videos and handouts
Critically
-make a spot report -Answering about making a report
-Making a spot report Comprehension
Questions

-Vocabulary
Building

-Grammar
Checking

-Solving a crime
 scene

References:

Larsen-Freeman, D. (2000). Techniques and principles in language teaching. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ulum, Ö. G. (2016). ESP Needs Analysis of Public Order Police Officers. International Online Journal of
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http://www.careerpaths-esp.com

http://busyteacher.org/16311-teach-esp-for-police-officers

http://criminal.lawyers.com/traffic-violations/traffic-stops-and-roadblocks