Challenges and Prospects of ESP from Moroccan ELT Teachers’ Perspectives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34874/PRSM.iajesp-vol2iss1.18854Keywords:
ESP, Needs Analysis, Job marketAbstract
This paper is about raising the quality of ESP in Moroccan engineering schools. Actually, ESP in Morocco faces lot of pedagogical challenges that impede the teaching of ESP courses.These challenges should be tackledin order to move this field forward and help engineering students achieve their objectives and meet their needs adopting present situation analysis and target situation analysis. Having said this, the ultimate objectives of this paper is to explore the ESP teachers’ perspective on English for engineering and how they meet Moroccan engineering students’ needs. Also, to seek for the challenges that they face so as to come up with practical steps that can be followed in order to meet Moroccan engineering studentsneeds. To achieve the objectives of this study, the researcher opted for the qualitative method using the semi-structured interview as a qualitative research instrument. The population of this study is Moroccan ESP teachers who teach in different engineering schools in Morocco. After gathering the data using the semi-structured interview as data collection, the researcher opted forthematic analysis as the most appropriate data analysis techniques. The results revealed that Moroccan ESP teachers face many challenges such as heterogeneous groups, students’ motivation, individual differences, resources, and training.
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