DESIGN OF ESP COURSE FOR GROUPS OF STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Abstract

In today’s practice of teaching ESP at the university level, especially at the faculties with a great number of departments, it sometimes happens that the students from different departments are grouped to attend ESP lessons. Such a situation occurs due to different circumstances and conditions, such as a disproportional number of students at individual departments, the number of allocated lessons per week, classroom organization of the teaching process, etc. The paper will present, elaborate and discuss, the design of an ESP course for groups consisting of students from different departments within humanities and social sciences, in the duration of four semesters (four subjects, two academic years), with a special emphasis on the selection and creation of course materials. In doing that, both relevant and current ESP literature and practical experiences will be used. The outcome of the paper will be the creation of a detailed course plan, containing all the components relevant to its practical application.