Teacher Articles on Teaching English for Specific Purposes
The 'Teaching English for Specific Purposes' category provides a wealth of articles designed to enhance your understanding and skills in this specialised area of English language teaching. It offers practical advice, innovative teaching methods, and insights into the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English for specific purposes. This resource is particularly beneficial for educators and academics seeking to refine their approach and deliver more effective, tailored English language instruction.
300 Technical English abbreviations list
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Vocabulary
The most useful acronyms and other short forms for engineers and other technical staff
Colloquial expressions for medical terms
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Vocabulary
Everyday English for medical jargon, to be used by patients, doctors, nurses and other people using or studying Medical English.
How to teach the language of trends
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Functional Language
Presentation and stimulating practice for describing changes, one of the most important kinds of business/ ESP language.
First lessons for Academic Writing classes
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Starting courses for people who need to write essays and academic papers in English.
The ESP approach - Theory and reality of needs analysis and course design
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Adapting the nice ideas of needs analysis and course design to the situations we actually teach in.
How to use the topic of inventions in EFL classes
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: General
New technologies as a stimulating and useful topic for ESP and General English classes.
How to Teach English for Engineers
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A short guide to the why, what and how of teaching students studying or working in technical areas.
Teaching Travel English
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Tips for teaching learners who will be travelling
Preparing for your first Business or ESP class
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Although most people who become specialist Business English or ESP (English for Specific Purposes, such as Medical English or Financial English) teachers enjoy it and its professional benefits so much they never look back, the first time you face students
Whose Needs Are We Serving?
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How Is The Design Of Curriculum For English For Medical Purposes Decided?
Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How is English for Specific Purposes (ESP) different from English as a Second Language (ESL), also known as general English?
Technical Writing & Communication: What & Why?
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A look at the importance of technical writing in the sciences.
Tips on using the Internet as a tool in TESOL
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to create an Internet-based lesson, with links to sample lessons.
Changing The Paradigm For Medical English Language Teaching
Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Medical English should be taught from the perspective of medicine and health care first and foremost while reinforcing vocabulary acquisition, grammar and structure secondly.