Designing an english ESP (English for Specific Purposes) syllabus for first year matter sciences at Brothers Mentouri university Constantine
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
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This research is concerned with the teaching of english as a foreign language (EFL). Our ascertainments during the long period we spent in teaching chemistry to graduate students and supervising post-graduate ones in the department of Matter Sciences and likes has led us to wonder whether english teaching in these scientific departments obeys any strategy of predetermined objectives. Accordingly, present study aims at identifying the first-year students' needs in english for specific purposes (ESP) at the department of matter Sciences (MS), Brothers Mentouri university, Constantine (BMUC) with the intention to improve the quality of the teaching/learning situation of english at the faculty by proposing a syllabus for first year matter sciences students. For this purpose, a needs analysis was carried out to determine the students' needs. Data was obtained from questionnaires distributed to both ESP teachers and first year matter sciences students which were analyzed in terms of frequencies, percentages, means or standard deviations. The analysis of data has revealed that first year matter sciences students need to be proficient in the four primary skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing with neat attention given for reading skill in order to study or to get job in the future. Based on the findings of this research, this study indicates that an ESP syllabus, which takes into consideration the students' needs, should be developed at this department of matter sciences in Constantine University. Consequently an attempt to propose a reading english syllabus was made and model unit was proposed. Finally, based on the research findings, last part the thesis displays a set of recommendations and pedagogical proposals.
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Teaching : english : ESP (English for Specific Purposes)