Criteria of ESP (Robinson, 1991)

ESP is normally goal directed. It means that students study English not because they
are interested in the English language (or English language culture) as such but because
they need English for study or work purpose.

ESP course is based on needs analysis. The anlysis aims to specify as closely as possible
what exactly the students have to do through medium of English.

Students of ESP course are usually adults not children. As an example: A Vocational
School ESP is taught but EGP (English for General Purpose).
ESP courses are written about as though they consist of identical students. It means that
all the students in the class are involved in the same kind of work.

PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FOR ESP

As mentioned before TESP is based on needs analysis about the language. ESP concerns
language, pedagogy ( education ) and content. Differences among these will make difference
in ESP courses such as in syllabus, course design etc. these involve theoriest of linguistics with
the difference discipline such as psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

The terminology used in this is as follows ( Robinson, 1991 ).

Variety
Variety in this case, is variety in using language. The variety refers to some such as
dialects for instance regional, temporal etc.

Register
One of the term covered in variety is register. Register is speech variety used by a
particular group of people, usually sharing the same occupations such as doctors,
lawyers etc ( Richards 1985 ). The components are field ( topic ), mode, tenor. Registers
are commonly identified by certain phonological variants, vocabulary, idioms and other
expressions that are associated with different occupational or socioeconomics group ).
Colleagues in the same occupation or profession will use certain jargon to communicate
with each other, for instance, truckers, airline pilots use words and phrases unique to
their own groups ( Brown, 1994 ). Register is the basis of research in ESP. then it is
referred to as discrete set of linguistic choices. Thus we find such as language of
science, language of medicine, language of matematics.

Special Language
Special language is the final development in ESP. it is such as in Robinson ( 1991 )
English for Bankers ( for user ), to English in banking ( domain ) and banking English.
Another example is English for Mathemtician, English in Mathematics and Math
English. Some words for this are diagonals, trapezium, calculus etc. ( Stella, 2004 ).

Specialist Knowledge
What ESP researcher need to know, first of all is the content of students’ specialist
disciplines: the knowledge and the conceptual discipline network that are involved. The
use of this is to know what should be taught in ESP courses.