The Relation between ESP and GE and their Effect on Designing the Courses among Teachers of English in Departments of Constantine 1 University

Abstract

The focus of this research is on the role of ESP practitioner who plays different roles such as being a researcher, an evaluator and so on. Also, this research casts light on the differences between presenting a course for EFL learners and presenting it for other learners of other disciplines. Doing so, ten teachers (five of ESP and five of both ESP and GE) from three departments and two universities have been selected and given an interview after observing the way they deliver their courses in the classroom. Results showed that ESP teachers in the English Department use the same methods for both the teaching of ESP and GE especially because most of them do not have authentic materials and mainly because they teach ESP at the English Department. In other departments, some ESP teachers play the five roles of the ESP practitioner, others do not. This study is based on the point of view of an ESP practitioner, an ELT teacher and an applied linguistics and methodology specialist researcher, in order to highlight the differences between GE and ESP, and to analyse the role of ESP teachers in some Algerian universities.