English for Spesific

Purpose
Annisa Amelia
201312500910

Course Design

Language
Description

What is Course Design?

Designing
a
course
is
fundamentally a matter of asking
questions in order to provide a
reasoned basis for the subsequent
processes of syllabus design,
materials
writing,
classroom
teaching, and evaluation.

Main Headings of Course

Design

What is Language
Description?
Language description is the
way language system is
broken down and described
for the purposes of learning.

Classical of Traditional Grammar

Structural Linguistic

Six Main
Stages of
Developmen
t

Transformational Generative
Grammar
Language Variation & Register
Analysis
Functional / Notional Grammar

Discourse (Rhetorical) Analysis

Classical of Traditional
Grammar
Descriptions of English and other
languages
were
based
on
the
grammars of the classical languages,
Greek and Latin. These descriptions
were based on an analysis of the role
played by each word in the sentence.

Structural Linguistic
In a structural description the
grammar of the language is
described in terms of syntagmatic
structures
which
carry
the
fundamental proposition (statement,
interrogative, negative, imperative,
and so on) and notions (time,
number, gender, and so on).

Transformational
Generative (TG) Grammar
The grammar of a language is not
the surface structures themselves,
but the rules that enable language
user to generate the surface
structures from the deep level of
meaning.

Language Variation and

Register Analysis

Language
variation:
view
language
as
part
of
a
communication
as
a
whole
language use contextually shows
considerable variety.
Register
analysis:
an
insubstantial
basis
for
the
selection of syllabus items.

Functional / Notional
Grammar
Functions are concerned with
social behavior and represent
the intention of the speaker or
writer.
Notion reflect the way in which
the human mind thinks.

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The relationship between the two can be
best expressed in the form of this simple
equation:
Structure + context =
function
Meaning + context =
notion

Discourse (Rhetorical)
Analysis

Discourse analysis involves a lot of

approaches to analyzing written,
spoken, signed language.
This language description can be
applied to any situation, problem and
text, in order to transform simple
students into critical thinkers.

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Example:
A: Can I go out to play?
B: Its raining.

A: Have you cut the grass yet?

B: Its raining.

A: I think Ill go out for a walk.

B: Its raining.

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We can identify two key ways in which results
of studies into the nature of discourse have
been used in ESP teaching materials:

Learners are made aware of the stages in

certain set piece transactions associated
with particular specialist fields.
The second use of discourse analysis in ESP
has been through materials which aim to
explain how meaning is created by the
relative position of the sentences in a written
text.

Thank You