Teaching English For Specific Purposes

Task 1 Learning About Us

Present by

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Muñoz

Code :(11206262)

Number the group

(551019A_764)

Present to

Clara Esperanza Bilbao Cortés

University National Open and Distance

(UNAD)

September 2020.
Task 1: My name is Juan Rodriguez I am original from Medellin I'm 35 years old I am
in the eighth semester, I am a beginner in English I hope to learn from you and this
course, my WhatsApp number is 3164226178 I will be pending for futures
collaboratives activities.

Task 2: Answer some questions

According to the course description, what could your personal goal be while
completing the course and why?
My principal goal will be to find a better form to teach English and the students
become lovers the second language and the second hand to get a lot of skills to speak
fluency.
According to the course contents, how do you think the course will help you to
improve your teaching competences?
I think that the course contents are complete for me as a student because I could check
that I will develop skills with different strategies to teach and to learn to teach.
According to the course contents, what are the five topics you like the most and
why?
For me, the most important topics in this course are ESP especially because about this
topic expand different subjects I agree and I would like to learn how to teach diverse
specific purpose for example business English, English to travel, technical English,
these topics are specific purposes that important to different professionals. I consider
that other topics will be to get abilities to teach children, adults, and adolescents
English. I would like to know the strategies to learn the second language and not lose
the intension. Most people start to study English and leaving this goal of getting the
second idiom.
According to the course contents, how does ESP relate to your language learning
experience? I relate ESP with my language learning experience, now with my
practices online to improve my second language because the online teacher said to me
which are the real purposes to learn and to take these classes. Now we are working on
the topics with relation us career, my possible job, and how to get money.
Have you been enrolled in an ESP course in the past? If so, Which one? What did
you like or didn’t like about it?

No, I haven’t it will be the first time.

Task No 3

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 References.

Dudley-Evans, T. (2001). English for specific purposes. In R. Carter & D. Nunan

(Eds.), The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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Hutchinson, T., & Waters, A. (1987). The origins of ESP. In English for Specific
Purposes (Cambridge Language Teaching Library, pp. 6-8). Cambridge: Cambridge
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