Microsoft Word 08 Exam-Checklist Intro21 20211202 V02. docx

ESP – English for Specific Purposes.
Here, students are in a specific context such as their job. Popular types of ESP include medical English and legal English. Having said this, there are also English courses available for taxi drivers, builders and in hospitality, such as working in a restaurant or hotel.
BE – Business English and EAP – English for Academic Purposes
The two most common types of ESP are BE (Business English) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes). BE involves teaching specific vocabulary, grammar and functional language to be used in business and corporate settings around the world. This might include teaching language for negotiations or meetings as well as writing more formal emails. As a teacher, you’ll be going into businesses and teaching groups of students or providing one-to-one lessons. Secondly, EAP is taught to students. English for Academic Purposes helps prepare students for their university education on English-speaking courses. It covers things like writing academic essays and taking notes in a lecture. Pre-sessional courses take place during the summer in English-speaking countries, preparing students to start their degree in September. Some students might take a foundation
year of EAP at their university before they start their degree.
ELF – English as a Lingua Franca
In EFL (English as a Foreign Language), students learn “correct” English – an English that meets ‘native-speaker norms
’. When we think, however, that around the world there are over four times more people who’ve learnt English as an additional language than native speakers, it’s easy to question why this English must meet native-speaker norms. In many situations, it’s far more likely for conversations to take place between two non-native speakers than a native-speaker and a non-native speaker!
ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) tries to develop an English that is both easy to use and easy to comprehend between non-native speakers. Some of this concerns pronunciation – for example, how important is it that students can make a ‘th’ sound at the starts of words like three? It can still be easily understood by other non-native speakers (and native-speakers) if this sound is replaced with a ‘f’ or ‘d’ sound. Depending on the context in which you’re teaching, your learners might prefer to focus
on ELF rather than EFL in the classroom.