COMPARISON CHART
ESP
 Designed to meet specific needs to learners.
 Makes use of the underlying methodology and
activities of the served disciplines.
 Designed for adults learners, secondary school
level or profesional work situation.
 Generally designed for intermediate or advance-
level students.
 Assume some basic knowledge of language
system, but it can be used with beginners.
CLT
 Emphasizes to engage the learners in real-life
situations in the classroom so that they can
understand how to communicate in the real world.
 Believes that communication is the fundamental
objective of language and the learners need to
develop all the skills of language (reading, writing,
listening and speaking)
 CLT focuses on the fluency of the learners rather
than the accuracy of the gramar and learners
acquire their accuracy gradually and naturally.
 It offers the oportunity to join in teacher-learner
and learner-learner interaction in the classroom.