The Teaching of ESP Compared to General English: An Experimental Project

Abstract

The paper attempts to evaluate the scope for improvement of teaching ESP to engineering students for developing their proficiency in English. The paper addresses the issues of teaching ESP in comparison to General English to analyse the improvement shown by learners in English. The differences in courses and methods and their impact can well be analysed to determine the efficacy of ESP focus. The paper tries to explore the effectiveness of ESP teaching through a survey of students' feedback. The results show that teaching ESP is effective in terms of students' basic understanding of grammar, syntax and the correct usage of words. It also proves effective in terms of the development of learners' language skills (LSRW). Moreover, learners have been found to be highly motivated in the classroom.