Week 1
January, 17 - 23
- Self-introductions:
- Participants explain what their background is.
- Who their students are and what field(s) they are in.
- How they use ESP, or how they would like to use it.
- Why use English
for Specific Purposes?
- Objectives for this week: Self-introductions
- Guest lecturer: Margaret van Naerssen
- Discussion of the ESP approach, different types of ESP (academic and workplace,) and general logistics and advantages/disadvantages of using ESP. (Click to go to the discussion).
- Participants:
Introduce yourself to the group. You can do this by sending a message
to the group either through the Yahoo! Group list: EVOesl2esp@yahoogroups.com
, or by clicking on "POST" listed on the left menu bar of
our Yahoo! Group website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVOesl2esp/
- Activity:
Look over the bibliography and links.
- Optional Activity:
- Upload your image, (a small one) to the PHOTOS section. You can do that by clicking on PHOTOS, listed on the left menu bar of our Yahoo! Group website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVOesl2esp/
- Create your own Weblog in three easy steps, at blogger.com! (This is a hands-on activity that we will do together synchronously, i.e, in real life time, at Yahoo Messenger. ( Download Yahoo Messenger - Buthaina's YM ID: buthaina_3
- for more information on Weblogs, please go to Links section on our ESL2ESP YGroup website.