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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Week 3: NEED ANALYSIS IN ESP Tran Thi Thu Hien, PhD, ULIS, VNU
Practice CONTENTS 2 Review Approaches to need analysis Need Assessment
REVIEW Key concepts 3 1
ESP 4 1. Hutchinson and Waters (1987): - is an approach to language learning - is based on learners’ need. ESP does not involve a particular kind of language, teaching material or methodology. The foundation of ESP involves the learners, the language required and the learning contexts which are based on the primacy of need in ESP. 2. Robinson (1991): ESP is normally goal-directed. 3. Dudley-Evans & St John (1998) - 3 absolute characteristics - 4 variable characteristics