Teaching ESP Reading: The Case at the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Jember

 

Albert Talla

 

An outgoing problem dealing with teaching English for non English major students is use management of big classes. ESP becomes the choice to teach English in such situation because it is assumed that this kind of English is required by non English major students. Unfortunately, the teaching and learning process often falls due to a number of problems on of which is mentioned above.

This paper discusses the problems arisen in teaching ESP reading in the Faculty Economics, Universitas Jember. Material development and the way how this material delivered to the students are discussed. Some proposed activities to develop the students’ schema on the content of the reading materials are also part of the discussion.

Finally, some proposed plan to develop the teaching and learning process such as collaboration with the subject specialist is also taken into consideration. Some problems dealing with teaching ESP could be minimized if this concept works well.

 

 

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Talla, A. (2002, March). Teaching ESP reading: The case at the faculty of economics, Universitas Jember. Paper presented at the national conference on Autonomy, Bandung, Indonesia.

 
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