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MATESOL students’ reflections and perceptions of an ESP course in the United Arab Emirates

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Type Article
Document no. 118253
Author El Sakran, Tharwat. Department of English, College of Arts& Sciences, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Pages pp. 13-26
Host Item Entry Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education. . Vol. 2, no. 1, 2014
Electronic Location Full text (PDF)  PDF
Descriptors Student attitudes  -  Private universities  -  English  -  Language instruction  -  United Arab Emirates
Language of document English
Country Bahrain
This paper relates the experiences of the writer designing and teaching a graduate English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teacher-based course to a group of MATESOL students at a private university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It details the participants’ backgrounds and aspirations, course objectives, course contents, the students’ perceptions of the whole course, the textbook used, the assigned tasks and activities and the staging and administration of the course. The participants’ reflections show positive attitudes towards the course and the way it was administered and managed. The paper concludes with some pedagogical implications for prospective ESP teacher educators, ESP course designers and ESP course implementation. (Published Abstract)

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