Master 1 Didactique des Langues Etrangères - English for Specific Purposes - M. OUTEMZABET Belkacem

University of Bejaia

Faculty of Arts and Languages

Department of English

Teacher: Mr Belkacem Outemzabet

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021

Level of study: Master 01

Speciality: Linguistics

Orientation: Research

 

 

 

Subject’s title: English for Specific Purposes and English for Academic Purposes

Subject’s code: ESP/EAP

Number of credits: 1

Coefficient value: one

 

The objectives of the subject:

 

The principal aim of this course is to familiarize students with the most prevailing concepts, theories and analytical tools in the study of language for specific/occupational purposes. The topics to be covered include such current issues as the multidisciplinarity, authenticity, research-base, ESP competences, ESP methodology, textual generic and discursive features, the issue of specificity, needs assessment, classifications

 

Pre-requisite (background) knowledge 

 

-       Introductory concepts to foreign language teaching and ESP

-       second language learning theories,

-       Sociolinguistics: English as an international language

-       Textual linguistics/discourse analysis: standards of textuality, discourse functions, structural patterns of texts

 

Course contents

 

1-      Definitions of ESP

2-      Origin and developments of ESP

3-      ESP Classifications and typologies 

4-      ESP competences

5-      Authenticity in  ESP

6-      Needs analysis in ESP

7-      Linguistic research in ESP: register, text, discourse, corpus and genre analyses

8-      ESP teaching methods and issues

Mode of evaluation: 

 

1-      Continuous evaluation

2-      Projects

 

References    (Recommended Readings).

1-      Hutchinson, T. & Waters, A. (1987). English for Specific Purposes: a Learning-Centered Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2-      Dudley-Evans and St John. (1998). Developments in English for Specific purposes: a multi-disciplinary approach. Cambridge: Cambridge university press.

3-      R.R. Jordan. 1997. English for Academic Purposes: a Guide and Resourse Book for Students. Cambridge: Cambridge university press.

4-      B. Outemzabet. 2018. ESP Concepts and Issues: Lecture Notes for Bejaia University Students. E-learning: Bejaia University.