As a collaborator

(meet the specific

learner's needs)

ESP: learner- GE: language

centred centred As a course designer, material
ESP: provider and a researcher
- Learners: usually adults (highly (provide suitable materials to
motivated) achieve set goals )
- Purposes: to communicate
Programs
professional info/ to perform
Roles of ESP
some particular, job-related As an evaluator
functions Practitioners
(inform Ss about their
- ESP is centered on context
learning progress)
Learners and Module 2: ESP vs.
EGP:
- Learners: varies from children
learning purposes General English Cultural understanding
to adults Differences as a role
- Purposes: help Ss cope with any between ESP and
subject-matter course
GE
- EGP focus on grammar,
language structure and general As a teacher Organizing courses
vocab

Setting goals and Objectives

Implications for the
materials, classroom
activities and ELT Evaluating Students
ESP teacher
- Roles: design a syllabus and
evaluate Ss' performance Creating a learning
GE teachers vs. ESP environment
- Be involved in a 'training
operation' practitioners ESP practitioners ESP teaching is
has to perform more more student-
roles than EGP centered than ESP
GEP teacher:
- Role: not necessary set the teacher
goals and objectives
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- Be involved in an
- Q1: Is there any simmilarities between ESP and EGP teachers
'educational operation'
- Q2: Why cultural understanding is a role of ESP teacher?