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Cooking for the ESP Class
Simona Petrescu
BESIG Conference, Sitges, November 2015
Steps
Outcome
Design an ESP lesson
Outcome? (learner ability)
Steps? (to take the learner
through)
A lesson for HR professionals•Outcome: HR professionals devise action plans / performance management
•Steps:
Words
• Problems, remedial actions• Neglect an issue, run out of resources, overrate …,
miscalculate…• Maximize profits, monitor expenses, map out a
strategy etc
Structures
• Interpret figures, identify problems, recommend action
• Motivation is sinking because we have neglected the issue of SD, so we need to map out a strategy for next year.
Speak• Perform the task „Devise action plans“
Lesson steps: rationale / theory1. Focus on form and Focus on content
content form content + form
Lesson steps: rationale / theory2. Declarative vs Procedural knowledge
PPP in my model: P1 moved back to Help Page (2nd mind map, incl language)
P2 consists in matching: discourse move <=> lg structure;
fast-track to proceduralization
no „rules“; no jargon / metalanguage
Lesson starts Class work
Lesson ends /
Help Page
„Outcomes“ – how are they generated?• Consider / adjust for: profession, role, industry; Learner• Map the learner‘s business process (similar to a management consultant)• Identify communicative tasks in the BP• Analyse the communicative tasks
• Internal flow? Steps? Components addressed?• Words?• Structures?
• Link 1 task to 1+ lesson(s); the task => the „outcome“ / the lesson goal• Teach towards the outcome / the task consistently in the same steps
(content, words, structures, task performance)
Transfer: English for relocation
Travelling
• Check in• Ask for
directions
• …
Settling in
• Meet my neighbours
• Shop • Open a
bank account
• …
Starting work
• Introduce myself
• Talk about my experience
• …
…
Why a business-process syllabus?• Why focus on tasks? – emerge directly from NA – facilitate acquisition of procedural knowledge - directly• Why the learner‘s (business) process? – systematic; generative – transferrable – relevant
Bonus: provides a template for carrying out the NABonus: face validity / customers
Why a content-words-structure-perform lesson?• Intuitive: that is how we grapple with conveying a message in a foreign language (what to say? What words? How to put the words together?)
•Cyclic: message – language – (enhanced) message•Systematic; easy to replicate; all adult contexts / learning needs are mappable on a process (see relocation language programme)
•Streamlined: no ballast•Outcome-focused, learner-focused (learner‘s desired outcomes)
sim.petrescu@googlemail.com
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