WRITTEN TEST

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP)

[English Department/VI/ Made Sujana/100 minutes] A

PART A: COMPULSORY QUESTIONS (Answer all of these questions)

NO. WEIGHT
1. Hutchinson & Waters (1993) liken the designing of an ESP course as a 15
journey/route of traveling. What does it mean? (Provide examples to
support your argument)
2. The central issue that needs to be considered in ESP is learner’s need. (a) 20
What is the meaning of needs?; (b) How can the needs cause conflict on
the designing of an ESP course? (Provide examples to support your
argument!)
3. The emergence of ESP are motivated by the revolutions in (a) technology; 15
(b) linguistics,; and (c) educational psychology. How do these revolutions
influence the ESP in ELT?
4. Elaborate the following responsibilities of a medical staff at public 20
hospital.
Responsibilitis:
 Registering patients and taking a medical history of patients.
 Checking up the patient
Determine:
 Communicative needs
 Competencies
 Materials

PART B: OPTIONAL QUESTIONS (Choose 2 out of 5 questions)

5 What is the meaning of “knowing a language”? How does it relate to the 15

selection of teaching materials in ESP?
6 According to Dudley-Evans & St. John (1998), the purposes of 15
doing needs analysis are to do (a) Present Situation Analysis (PSA);
(b) Target Situation Analysis (TSA); and (c) Learning Situation
Analysis (LSA). What do they mean? (Explain briefly).
7 Why is it necessary to consider “professional workers” in particular 15
workplace in designing an ESP program?
8 According to Scarino, et al. (1994), there are 8 principles of what make 15
learners learn best in ELT. (a) Mention and explain at least 3 of those; (b)
How do those principles relate to teaching English using an ESP
approach?
9 What are the differences between definition given by Streven (1988) and 15
that of Duddley-Evans & St. Jones (1998)?
10. (a) What is ESP?; (b) What make the ESP approach preferable in current 15
language training?
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