Designing and Implementing ESP Course

Course design is the process by which the raw data about a learning need is interpreted in order to produce an integrated series of teaching-learning experience, whose ultimate aim is to lead the learners to a particular sate of knowledge. Three main approaches to course design can be identified: language-centred, skills-centred, and learning-centred. A language-centred approach to course design is an approach that focuses on the linguistic performance of the learner in the target situation Hutchinson and Waters. This approach aims to draw direct connection between target situation and the content of ESP course. It draws a direct link with the target situation and needs of knowledge to identify the linguistic features of that target situation, and then creates a syllabus after those materials are designed and evaluation procedures.