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題名 | An ESP Approach to Course and Material Design for the Students of Agriculture= |
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作者 | Poorebrahim, Fatemeh; Mazlum, Farhad; |
期刊 | Taiwan International ESP Journal |
出版日期 | 20131200 |
卷期 | 5:2 2013.12[民102.12] |
頁次 | 頁21-46 |
分類號 | 805.1 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | EAP; ESP in FL contexts; Students of agriculture; Needs analysis; Syllabus design; |
英文摘要 | The paper draws on ESP principles to design a course and sample materials to help BA students of agriculture meet their needs of in English for academic purposes. To get familiarized with agriculture as an academic area and the students' needs in English, thirty hours of their classes were observed and five lecturers were interviewed. Then a questionnaire was administered to learn about students' perceptions of their needs and English proficiency. It was found that reading was the most essential skill. Accordingly, a skill-centered approach was adopted in designing the course. Students' reading proficiency level was tested using a sample TOEFL test and the results were scored according to standard checklists. On average, the students were found to be at pre-intermediate level. To strike a balance between GE and EAP, necessitated by the low proficiency level of students, the course is offered in three semesters, starting with one-third EAP in the first semester to an entirely EAP content in the third. Complimentary Pyramid Syllabus Design was used to inform the process of syllabus design, reconciling between the synthetic and analytic syllabus approaches . The findings are used to discuss particular features of ESP classes in foreign language contexts and are then contextualized in terms of the broader ESP literature. |
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