What is Esp

is the process by which the raw data about a learning need areinterpreted
to produce an integrated series of teaching-learning experiences.
●Who decides on the courses offered at primary and secondary schools?
●Ministry of Education
●Civil Organizations
●Other Educational Institutions
●OBJECTIVE: 
Objectives:To provide the students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to achieve the graduate outcomes stated in the educational policy.
Approaches to Course Design
The basic hypothesis : underlying any language behavior are certain skills and strategies which the learner use in order to copmrehend or produce discourse.
Learning situation is important.
How learning takes place is important.
It motivates learners to work on language tasks on their own outside the class.(Learner Autonomy)
Product-Oriented Approaches
The focus of the evaluation is on the goals and instructional objectives
The purpose is to determine whether they have been achieved.
Drawbacks of language-centered course design:

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  Learners’ needs are not taken into considerations.
  
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  Individual differences are not catered for.
  
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  Language learning and teaching process is viewed as systematic.
  
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  There is not much flexibility in order to respond to unexpected situations.
  
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  The focus is on what is learned not on how it is learned.
  
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  It is at the surface level. It reveals very little about the competence that underlies the performance.
  
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  This course design fails to recognise the fact that, learners being people, learning is not a straightforward, logical process.
  
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  A language-centered approach says:
  

This model has 2 implications:
Course design is a negotiated process. The learning situation and the target situation will both influence the nature of the syllabus, materials, methodology and evaluation procedures.Course design is a dynamic process. It doesn’t move in a linear fashion. Needs and resources vary with time. The course design, therefore, needs to have built-in feedback channels to enable the course to respond to developments.