"Deciding Learning Objective for ESP Course and Programs"
1. Register Analysis Registers are a characteristic set of language elements, including grammar forms and vocabulary items that people will associate with a particular situation, purpose, or social context. Register analysis provides ESP course designers and instructors with a solid foundation for targeting and teaching ESP-focused grammar. Register analysis also provides ESP course designers and instructors with an understanding of how vocabulary is distributed in and across texts.
2. Rhetorical (Discourse) Analysis
It focuses to understand how sentence were combined in discourse to produce meaning. The concern of research, therefore, was to identify the organizational patterns in texts and to specify the linguistic means by which these patterns are signaled.
3. Genre Analysis Genre analysis is an extremely powerful analytical approach in ESP that allows course designers and instructors to identify the communicative purpose, structure, style, content, and intended audience of target texts. It is important to remember that the scope of genre analysis goes beyond just the analysis of static written and spoken texts.
4. Learning and Meta-cognitive Skills
General principles of language learning :Learning is a decision-making process Learning is an active process Learning is a monitoring process Learning is an emotional process Learning is a building process
Learning is often an incidental process
Metacognitive skills allow you to organize and evaluate your thought process related to learning and problem-solving.
Sequencing of Learning Objective
The lesson plans and the overall course structure motivate learners to study, help them develop a positive attitude about the course content, and reduce their anxiety about meeting the goals and passing the course.
Sequencing in syllabus and curriculum specifications
Syllabus design A syllabus specifies the content and sequencing of language, genres, and skills for an individual course (in addition to information about materials and evaluation procedures).
Curriculum design A curriculum specifies the goals for an entire language program and the general sequencing, timing, and duration of courses created to meet those goals.
Contentious issues in ESP: addressing the subject knowledge problem
The challenges facing ESP instructors when it comes to subject knowledge can be mitigated to some extent through careful planning. In the simplest case, they might be able to find a published ESP textbook that covers the target field and design their classes around that.
An alternative solution to this problem is for ESP instructors to work in a team together with more experienced ESP administrators and subject specialists.
