Designing an ESP Course for Metallurgists

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Practical guidelines to syllabus choice and design It is clear that there is no such single type of content which will be appropriate for all teaching settings, and the needs and conditions of each setting are so particular that it is impossible to give specific recommendations for combination. However, a set of guidelines for the process can be offered. As the steps to be used in preparing a practical language teaching syllabus choice can be named the following: 1. Define and estimate, to the possible extend, what results are desired for the students in the instructional program or a course, i.e. what the students should be able to do as a result of the instruction. 2. Rank the syllabus types which were presented in the previous item according to their probability of leading to the desired outcomes. Arrange the six types in such a way so that to show the level of preference you going to give to each type. 3. Evaluate available resources for teaching, needs analysis, materials choice and production and in training for teachers. 4. Rank the syllabi according to available resources. It is necessary to decide what syllabus types would be the easiest to use in practice taking into account available resources. 5. Compare the lists made which are the results of step two and four. If there is a necessity - make a few regulations to the earlier list; present a new list of ranking which would be based on the availability of resources. 6. Indicate one or two syllabus types as dominant and give minor importance to one or two as secondary. 7. Review the question of combination or integration of syllabus types and define how it is possible to achieve these combinations and in what proportion. In order to make practical decisions abou... ... middle of paper ... ...ss, 1976 21. Brumfit, C. J. and Johnsor, K. The communicative approach to language teaching. Oxford university Press, 1979 22. White, R. V. The ELT Curriculum: Design, Innovation and management. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1988 23. Prabhu, N.S. Second language pedagogy. Oxford university Press, 1987 24. Art Corvelay. How to design a course syllabus. www.ehow.com 25. Alasuugari, P. An invitation to social research. Sage: London, 1998 26. Lynda Edwards. Placement test. Oxford University Press, 2007 27. .www.native-english.ru. Methods of teaching English language. Журнал иностранец, 2003 28. Tim Boven. Teaching approaches: the grammar-translation method. Macmillan, 2000-2001 29. Gray A. Constructivist Teaching and Learning. SSTA Research Centre Report #97, 2007 30. Colin Campbell and Hanna Kryszewska. Lerner-based teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992

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