ESP ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES After the Second

ESP – ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES • After the Second World War, the immigrants needed to learn English quickly to rebuild Europe; • To access technology people started learning Engllish as fast as possible; • After the oil crisis, it was necessary to learn a language to negociate the price of the oil;

ESP – ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES • Pedagogical changes in classroom: Foccus on the learner, not on the teacher; • Teacher and students are researchers; • Need analysis among the students to know what they really need to study; • Students don’t have to study all the abililties: Listening/writing/Reading and speaking; • Classes may be in the mother tongue (Portuguese);

ESP- ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES • “Tell me your needs and I tell you the English you need to know” • Use of texts taken from the area – Use of Authentic texts; • Emphasis on the reading comprehension and not on the grammar, depending on the need of the group; • "ESP is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learner's reason for learning".

ESP- ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES What are your needs? Glossary for vocabulary in the specific area; Reading Strategies; LSF – Systemic Functional Linguistics- For Halliday a central theoretical principle is that any act of communication involves choices to create meaning; • Why are those terms chosen? What’s the intention? • •