With the development of technology, culture and economy,the demand for English for Specific Purposes is expanding, espe-cially in China where international communication becomes morefrequent these years. Even though many institutions and universi-ties offer ESP courses for senior students, for years the instructionhas been limited to specialized lexicon and sentence structures, anapproach which may ignore the learners' personal interests. Thisoften leads to poor performance when they use English in their fu-ture career. Thus it is significant to help learners adapt to the com-petitive world, which infers that university English faculties needto design ESP courses that can best suit learners' needs for their fu-ture professional communication.This thesis puts forward a sample ESP course framework inacademic English writing for pharmaceutical university studentsand analyzes the elements of ESP course design: needs analysis;course goals and objectives; course details; materials design; andfinally, Assessment and evaluation. The author intends to exempli-fy the current situation of Academic English writing of Collegestudents especially those in specific major like pharmacy.
2 Literature review
The current concept of needs analysis in ESP, according toDudley-Evans and St John, includes consideration of the followingaspects[1-10]:A. Professional information about the learners: the tasks andactivities learners are/will be using English for- target situationanalysis and objective needs.B. Personal information about the learners: factors which mayaffect the way they learn such as previous learning experiences,cultural information, reasons for attending the course and expecta-tions of it, attitude to English- wants, means, subjective needs.C. English language information about the learners: whattheir current skills and language use are- present situation analysis-which allows us to assess (D).D. The learners' lacks: the gap between (C) and (A)-lacks.E. Language learning information: effective ways of learningthe skills and language in (D)-learning needs.F. Professional communication information about (A):knowledge of how language and skills are used in the target situa-tion- linguistic analysis, discourse analysis, genre analysis.G. What is wanted from the course.H. Information about the environment in which the coursewill be run - means analysis.Assessment and evaluation are also two important issues thatshould be included in the course design process. Assessment is aprocess of measuring what learners know and what they can do,whereas evaluation reveals how well the ESP course works withemphasis not only on successful factors but also on modifying lesssuccessful aspects.
3 Case study
3.1 Overview of a university course of College English At the Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, there is a coursein college English for undergraduate students. The purpose is toraise their English proficiency in their future jobs and study. Ichoose one part of the exercise, put it into pharmaceutical settingsand aim to prepare their writing in medical English in their futurecareer. After a half year study, students should have a basic under-standing of writing and their English should be sufficient to theirfuture study needs.The English course is conducted to those learners wh，英语毕业论文，英语毕业论文 |
