Week 4
Creating ESP Curriculum/ Activities
Feb. 7 - 13
- Creating an ESP curriculum:
- How can you develop materials that will meet your students' specific needs?
- How can you adapt existing ESL materials to meet ESP needs?
- How can you work with colleagues in the specific field to develop a curriculum?
- How time and
cost effective is it to develop specialized materials?
- Objective for this week: Creating ESP curriculum/ activities
- This week we are pleased to have the two guest moderators:
- Dafne Gonzalez - Please go to Dafne's general commets and questions
- Adam
Turner - Please go to Adam's general
comments and questions
- Participants:
- Have you developed your own ESP curriculum or created particular course activities to meet your students' ESP needs?
- Have you collaborated with academic or workplace colleagues on developing an ESP curriculum?
- How have you
adapted materials to meet students' particular needs? What problems
have you had to overcome?
- Optional activity:
- Post an assignment you've adapted for your particular target population, or create one that you might use.
- What changes have you made and why?
- What specific outcomes are you trying to achieve?
- If you haven't done this yet, write and post an exercise or assignment that would help students achieve the outcomes you posted last week.
- If possible, get feedback from a colleague or student on how useful this assignment or activity is, or try it and get feedback.