The Implementation of ESP for Economics Students: Incongruency Between Theory and Practice  

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Puspitasari, Ika ; Perdana, Hajar Anisa

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 432-437.
Topik: ESP; English for Economics; Incongruency
Fulltext: hal 432.pdf (15.04MB)

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To comprehend the current practice of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), many parties are expected to provide the information on what type of ESP needed from the Faculty, alumni and end-users, as well as for materials designing and teaching. Since many parties are involved, there might be some misunderstandings among them. The discrepancy might be caused by the faculty’s unawareness on the current situation. When incongruency transpires, it causes difficulties on the teachers during classroom activities as precise information is very crucial for the ESP to run well, especially in the practice of teaching, materials selection, and development. Aside from the aforementioned issue, the classroom input become another setback of the implementation of ESP. Ideally, this course is aimed for the students who have mastered general English so that the English offered will truly be for specific purposes. Yet, the reality shows there are many low-skilled students. Consequently, the applications of ESP need to be revisited in order to have a clear comprehension for future betterment. It is in line with Tsou and Chen (2104) who think that Evaluation of the implementation of ESP courses is greatly needed. Then, this study is aimed at disclosing on some of the major aspects of ESP for Economics students to reach a better understanding of the issues raised above. This study occupies descriptive qualitative methodology employing interview, questionnaire distribution and classroom observation. The result is then expected to give benefits as it would assist English teachers in providing the correct practice of ESP.

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