Ways of Training EFL Teachers for ESP Teaching

Ways of Training EFL Teachers for ESP Teaching ESP teaching requires particular and sometimes special skills, such as dealing with language input, handling skills work, answering questions on terminology, and listening to lectures and research presentations and seminar skills training. For this reason the ESP teacher is supposed to have not only language but also content knowledge of the field.

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knowledge to teach ESP feel unprepared to integrate authentic te(ts, tasks, or tests from content areas in their English classes. In this case, the task of teaching ESP is shouldered by content teachers who have got a degree in a university with English)medium instruction. *owever, these content teachers without training, skills and strategies for language teaching perceive themselves as unable to help ESP learners to understand academic concepts, facts and knowledge encoded in academic te(ts through the language that they are still learning. + survey for the purpose of identifying English 'anguage eeds for !echnical Education was conducted in -/ by the 'anguage Studies 0nit of the "urriculum 1evelopment "ell, II!, in !amil)2anpur, India. !he third research question of this survey was 3hose 4ob is it to teach you the language of Science and !echnology& English teachers 5 Sub4ect teachers $!eachers of "ivil, 6echanical, and Electrical Engineering etc%5 7oth English teachers and sub4ect teachers.8 -9.:; of the students said that it is the duty of their English teachers, -/..