Classroom practice and beyond Module 25 Classroom practice and beyond

What’s inside Learner’s specialist knowledge Class size Beyond the classroom

Learner’s specialist knowledge Since ESP learners bring to their language learning some knowledge of the own specialist field and the communication within it, the ESP teacher has to develop a conscious awareness so that control is gained, whether over language, rhetorical structure or communication skills.

Content Knowledge Teaching ESP is different from teaching EFL because learners have knowledge that they need to use, which generally ESP teachers do not have.

Roles and Relationships An ESP teacher provides a bank of English for learner’s to use. Any judgment of appropriacy, versus accuracy can only be made jointly.  An ESP teacher is often more of a consultant than a teller giving advice, suggesting alternatives and allowing the learner to make informed decisions.

Teaching and learning Materials Methodological approaches

Integrating the methodologies of other Disciplines Case studies - design an advertisement - write a letter/report - draw up a business plan - design an announcement for display on computer screens.

In subject projects students generally have to: Project Work In subject projects students generally have to: - generate a hypothesis - carry out a literature review - test the hypothesis - write a report - give an oral presentation or seminar

Classroom practice and beyond Module 26 Classroom practice and beyond

What’s inside Learner’s specialist knowledge Class size Beyond the classroom

Class Sizes When is large large? When small is small – one-to-one classes.

When is large large? The notion of what constitutes a large class depends on situation, purpose and experience.

Large class size Largest Class taught Large becomes intolerable Large, problems begin 1-20 33.3 25.0 21-40 44.5 34.1 41-60 50.0 37.4 61-80 60.5 42.1 81-100 64.5 101-120 85.0 62.9 121-140 80.0 55.0

Dealing with large classes Run classes at alternative times Combine and split classes Split classes Team-teach

Get the authorities to increase resources – teachers, rooms, materials, etc so that class size can be reduced or out of class support can be increased

Changing the approach Allow learners to consult each other Introduce pair and group work Introduce new feedback procedures Have core and alternative/additional activities

When small is small one to one Intensive Extensive Direct Direct Indirect Eg. EAP Tutorials Eg. Telephone courses Eg. Professionals in Business, diplomacy courses

Beyond the classroom Five modes of technology Video discs and CD-ROMS The Internet Electronic mail (E-Mail) CALL Material Computer-based corpora