شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The ESP courses essentially emerged all over the world as a discipline to fulfill the needs of the learners who want to learn English to communicate the outward people in different purposes. As so the ESP course is designed to be sufficient in terms of quality and quantity to obtain the aim to which it is designed. In Iraq, for example, we do have a certain ESP course entitled Introduction to the Study of Law" by Dr. Riyadh AlQaysi published in 1967 as an example used in teaching the first year students in Colleges and departments of law. The course adopted some aspects and terms related to the study of law. The target of this study is to evaluate the above mentioned ESP course in order to reveal whether it is sufficient in contents and performance, and to find out to which extent the Iraqi law students in present time utilize from the current outdated ESP course which had been published in 1967, i.e. after 46 years. It is well-known that Iraq had passed different changes since 1967 up till now starting from the change of the political of the Iraqi regime after 1968, different sever wars, the economical blockade, the American occupation, again the change of the Iraqi political regime after 2003, the security deteriorating, the fewness of working and employing chances, the spread of the worldly communication means especially Internet, etc. The researcher thinks that these changes may affect the Iraqi tongue, mood and attitudes towards learning in general and towards ESP course in particular. The researcher embodied the problem of the study in three diminutions: 1) the outdated of this course that is not suit the modern methods, 2) the non-submission of this course to the different changes since 1967, and 3) the contents of this course do not achieve the aim of communication because it is originally a translated version from Arabic text to be studied in Arabic not in English. The researcher used an interview, a questionnaire and a test as instruments to fulfill the requirements of the study. According to the findings, the researcher suggested an alternative course that corresponds with real needs of the students depending on the basic standards in designing the ESP courses. (Published Abstract)