Designing and implementing ESP courses in French higher education: a case study

Abstract

T his chapter reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for dental students at the University of Bordeaux. We give an overview of the 'English for Dental Studies' courses taught from second year through to fifth year before focussing on the fifth year course in which the students' task is to present a case treated on clinical attachment. By following the schema of Cheng's (2011) 'basic considerations', we will briefly describe the process from needs analysis and identification of learning objectives, to designing materials, learning tasks, and assessment criteria, with a focus on methodologies. Feedback from students via questionnaires is analysed in order to compare their perceived needs and expectations pre-course with their impressions after the course. Finally, we explore the gains that can be made by both ESP specialists and disciplinary teachers in the context of internationalisation in the French higher education system.

Materials Development for an Archival Science Course in Iran: An ESP Mixed Methods Study

“…The third side incorporates the person who should teach the content (language teacher or subject-matter teacher). Many scholars have studied each of these concepts from different perspectives in recent years (e.g., Raitskaya, 2018;Pašalić and Plančić, 2018;Luo and Garner, 2017;Bielousova, 2017;Salazar, 2017;Birch-Bécaas and Hoskins, 2017;Fălăuş, 2017).…”