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English for Specific Purpose: Material Development

MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ESP Introduction In language learning , material is anything which is used to help to teach language learners. materials can be found in the form of a textbook, a workbook, a cassette, a CD-Rom, a video, a photocopied handout, a newspaper, a paragraph written on a whiteboard: anything which presents or informs about the language being learned. (Tomlinson, 1998: xi). Dudley-Evans, (1998:170 as cited in Nurpahmi) points out that the role of material in ESP are as follows: 1.          As a source of language In some situation, where English is a foreign language not a second language, the ESP classroom may be almost the only source of language. Materials then play a crucia role in exposing learners to the language, which implies that the material need to present real language, as it is used, and the full range that learners require. Where the classroom is the primary source of language, the material also ...
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English Language Teaching and Entrepreneurship

English Language Teaching and Entrepreneurship ELT stands for English Language Teaching. Entrepreneur is a person who has a certain idea and wants to run the risk to get advantage from that idea.  Most English Language Teachers are entrepreneurs. If you want to be a great teacher as an entrepreneur, I’d give you three pieces of advice before you venture into teaching business. You should build 3 Factories in your Life, 1. Ice factory in Brain. 2. Sugar factory in Tongue 3. Love factory in Heart, Then your Life will be Satis-Factory. These three principles are the basic rules of any business in the world. Working for yourself Working for yourself is personally demanding in ways quite different from those of employment – however great the employment pressures. Nor is there any certainty as to how successful you will be or what level of regular net income you will be able to generate. Therefore, you need t...
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Syllabus Design

SYLLABUS DESIGN Introduction A syllabus is a specification of the content of the course of instruction and lists what will be taught and tested (Richard 2001:2). Thus the syllabus for speaking course might specify the kinds of oral skills that will be taught practiced during the course, the function, topics, or other aspects of conversation that will be taught and the other in which they will appear in the course. Nunan, (2001) defines a syllabus is a statement of content which is used as the basis for planning courses of various kinds. Therefore, a syllabus is a statement of content of a course of instruction and list what will be taught and tested during the course. It means that syllabus give information about what will be the content of the course. Nunan (2001) states that syllabus is concerned with the selection, sequencing and justification of the content of the curriculum. Traditional approaches to syllabus developed were concerned with selecting lists of linguist feat...
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