Developing communicative ESP reading skills : a study of methods of teaching English as a foreign language with emphasis on EST for students of the Faculty of Medicine in Iraq
This study attempts to get at some practical implications for the development of communicative ESP reading skills for EST students in science faculties in Iraq. While the title of this study suggests that the teaching itself may be the main topic, in fact, a very substantial amount of the thinking discussed in it is concerned with planning and realisation of potential. I have tried as far as I can to visualise the ESP operation throughout from the viewpoint of the country concerned, which means a constant awareness of its ideologies, its educational setting and the structure of its society,as these affect both national objectives and students' aspirations. The study comprises five chapters and a conclusion; and a substantial part of it is a fieldwork carried out in the faculty of medicine in Iraq. Chapter One is concerned with the history of the communicative syllabuses and the development of the communicative curriculum. It attempts to show how a realisation of a set of ideas such as notional/functional syllabuses, needs analysis and communicative language teaching came about. It also concentrates on the continuous change in the needs of our developing society, which implies that our methodological observations,
Tawfiq, Abdulla Shafiq
Linguistics
Developing communicative ESP reading skills : a study of methods of teaching English as a foreign language with emphasis on EST for students of the Faculty of Medicine in Iraq. This study attempts to get at some practical implications for the development of communicative ESP reading skills for EST students in science faculties in Iraq. While the title of this study suggests that the teaching itself may be the main topic, in fact, a very substantial amount of the thinking discussed in it is concerned with planning and realisation of potential. I have tried as far as I can to visualise the ESP operation throughout from the viewpoint of the country concerned, which means a constant awareness of its ideologies, its educational setting and the structure of its society,as these affect both national objectives and students' aspirations. The study comprises five chapters and a conclusion; and a substantial part of it is a fieldwork carried out in the faculty of medicine in Iraq. Chapter One is concerned with the history of the communicative syllabuses and the development of the communicative curriculum. It attempts to show how a realisation of a set of ideas such as notional/functional syllabuses, needs analysis and communicative language teaching came about. It also concentrates on the continuous change in the needs of our developing society, which implies that our methodological observations,
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