ESP课程的特定性研究及任务型设计

A study on the specificity of ESP courses and the design oftask-based instruction

本文简要介绍ESP课程在教学中的定位,分析ESP分类学科的特定性,并对专业术语和专业文体的专业化程度进行测定研究,ESP以其为特征因而区别于通用英语。ESP课程具体内容的制定在于对目的语真实使用情况的分析,ESP的课程设计原则及其内容和语言任务的编排应围绕所涉及的专业学科知识而不是语言知识本身。最后本文提出在项目化任务型教学法的实施中更应考虑对任务的实施完成程度,以接近真实语言使用情境中的语言行为。

The paper introduces the position of the ESP course in English language teaching,analyzes the specificity of ESP branches,and attempts to measure ESP technical terms and ESP writing styles by means of their levels of technicality,so as to distinguish ESP from EGP.The detailed content of ESP courses relies on the analysis of the real use of the target language.The ESP course design and the language task should emphasize the professional knowledge instead of language knowledge.Finally,the paper suggests the pedagogy of task and/or case based instruction for the ESP courses,in which more attention is to be paid to the completion of the tasks so as to approximate the real situation of the language behavior in question.