أطراس
Volume 4, Numéro 1, Pages 7-19
2023-01-15

Workplace-context Syllabus Design Towards Esp Learning And Teaching Materials Development

Authors : Mbenza Enock .

Abstract

This article, which was part of a project undertaken at the Higher Medical College ISTM/Kisantu entitled “Syllabus Development for Nursing Students”, deals with the issue of inconsistency between classroom ESP teaching materials and the real-life context in which students have to use them. Too often, what students learn in the classroom does not match the kind of language they will find in the target setting. Therefore, the present article proposes a systematic approach to syllabus design and materials development that reflects the specific language encountered in the target situation. It uses the context of a first-year nursing class in the DRC. The outcome of this approach is a workplace-context syllabus design which draws content from the target working environment of learners and reference books to come up with learning and teaching units which suit ESP learners’ needs.

Keywords

curriculum, materials development, syllabus, workplace-context syllabus design