Nowadays
,there are fifth phases of ESP development. All the approaches that related to
the ESP development can be found in all around the world and we can measure the
speeds of the development by seeeing the application of the approaches. They grow with the different speeds in each
country based on its needs to English. Related to the Development of ESP we
should take our attention to one are of activity that has been particularly
important in the development of ESP. We’ve known this as EST (English for Science
and Technology). Swales (1985) has pointed that the use of EST’s development can
be used to illustrate the development of ESP in general :
“EST has set and continues
to set the trend in theoretical discussion, in ways of analysing language, and
in the variety of actual teaching materials.”
Here
are the fifth phases and its explanation :
1.The concept of special
language : register analysis
The
needs of English here back to their needs according to their area of study or
work by operating the basic principle of English in a spesific register or
general english. They need to know them with an aim to identify the grammatical
and lexical features of these registers. Then, we need teaching materials to
take these linguistic parts as its syllabus. The main motive behind register
analyses is the pedagogic one of making the ESP course more relevant to
learners’ needs. The aim is to produce a syllabus which give high priority to
the language forms that the students will meet or won’t meet in each of their
studies. For example , we can compare the language on Science textbook and
general english textbook. Of course, there will be significant differences
between them, we can find that general english books neglect some of the
language forms that commonly find in the Science textbook. The conclusion is
ESP course should give precedence to these forms.
