특수목적영어 교과 현황 및 개발 방향

The practices, problems, and prospects of university ESP courses in Korea

  The purpose of the study is to investigate the current practices of ESP approaches implemented at university level, discover any potential problems, and suggest the ways to improve the quality of the ESP program in Korea. A total of 958 ESP courses were examined by surveying the web pages of curriculums and course descriptions of multiple disciplines at sixty universities. A list of ESP courses was charted along the dichotomy of EGAP vs. ESAP and EGOP vs, ESOP, in addition to EBP. Although a wide range of ESP courses were offered, the majority of them were being operated at a departmental level. The courses most commonly offered across universities were ESAP and EBP in nature. Few were practiced in the form of team teaching between a language specialist and a subject expert. The suggestions included more research-based approaches to the development and assessment of ESP curriculums and materials, greater collaboration across disciplines and between specialists, and deeper understanding of the nature of localized ESP.