Designing an English for Specific Purposes Course for National Handicraft Specialities at Kuressaare Regional Training Centre
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2014-10-24
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
The main aim of this MA thesis is to examine different ways of teaching and learning
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and to provide a rationale for designing an ESP course
for national handicraft specialities (textile, ceramics, leather craft) at Kuressaare Regional
Training Centre as well as in vocational schools in Estonia together with the aims and
competences set out in the national curriculum. The paper also examines various types of
syllabuses and their implementation in an ESP course.
The thesis is comprised of the introduction, three chapters, the conclusion, references and
six appendices. In the introduction, the reasons for and the aims of the study are listed. The
introduction also discusses the definitions and development of ESP and focuses on the
different roles the ESP teacher has to perform in a teaching-learning process.
Chapter 1 reviews the literature related to syllabus design, discusses the role of needs
analysis in the course design process and different ways of conducting the needs analysis.
Chapter 2 provides the results of the survey conducted among 74 students from four
vocational schools in Estonia. One of the aims of this survey was to determine the ESP needs
of national handicraft students without training experience abroad and of students with
various specialities from different vocational schools in Estonia with training experience in a
foreign country.
Chapter 3 focuses on the situation analysis of the national handicraft students, presents and
explains the outline of the course developed.
The relevant extract from the national curriculum, the curriculum of Kuressaare Regional
Training Centre, the needs analysis framework, two questionnaires and the developed ESP
course syllabus are presented in the Appendices. The list of 23 sources can be found on the
Reference page and the list of 12 sources of teaching materials on a separate page.
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Juhendaja: Ülle Türk
Keywords
üliõpilastööd, magistritööd, erialane inglise keel, rahvuslik käsitöö, ainekava koostamine, vajaduste analüüsi tähtsus