ESP Teachers

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ESP Teachers collaboration with Experts 

• Better Student outcomes Contextualized
  
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  Curriculum Content
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  By Malek Mhedhbi

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Background 1) ESP Professional practices

• The challenge of the interdisciplinary demands
  and practices of the academy and the world of
  professions.
• Recent research in genre analysis favours
  effective forms of Professional expertise, which
  integrates specific disciplinary knowledge and
  professional practice.
• Teachers internship or collaboration with
  experts Important role in education especially
  in career and technical education (Panella, 2007)

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Needs analysis at the ESP program level

• A needs analysis should be the fundamental
  principle on which the ESP approach itself is
  based. Hutchinson and Waters (1987 19)
• ESP teaching must evolve toward more
  professionalism
• Development of specific
  course-design
• Competent and reflective teachers
• Formative evaluation
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  (Daoud,1996)

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Work-based learning Teachers collaboration
with experts

• integration of workplace experiences and career
  and technical education curriculum Brown (2003
  1).
• gain an appreciation for the discipline and
  practice work skills (Brown, 2000).

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In-depth understanding of the discipline

• Provides concrete connections between the
  content, the skills taught in the program and the
  expectations of the workplace (Reese, 2005)
• Offers detailed information about the worksite,
  such as the working operations and expectations
  of what business English students will do in
  their careers.
• Prepares teachers to feel grounded, more
  confident, and able to foresee challenges and
  students' questions.

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Authentic teaching materials

• Develop a variety of authentic materials for
  their lessons workplace videos, employment
  application, business reports, business
  newsletters, credit letters, bill of lading
• Stimulating learning environment
• Students ability to conceptualize how
  academic knowledge and skills will be applied in
  the world of work.
• (Bennett,
  et al., 1998)

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Contextualized curriculum

• Engaging and relevant activities that meet
  students interests.
• Planning a variety of innovative activities that
  engage and motivate students such as
• ? Integrated reading and writing comprehend
  import/export documents write about document
  trade procedures.
• ?Demonstration of new vocabulary in swifts or L/C
  clauses, B/L
• ?Skimming or scanning contracts, business
  newsletters

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The work-based learning activity

• Objectives
• ?Mastering business knowledge (Understanding
  document trade procedure)
• ?Adopting authentic teaching materials (real
  documents, videos)

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Description

• -Setting STB (Central Bank) in Mohammed V
• -Period December to January, 2012
• -Department Payment documentation departments
• -Cooperative business specialists Rathouane
  Kliaa (Documentation)
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  Saber Zayani (Payment Swifts)
• -Survey tools Observation Interview
• -Teacher responsibilities
• get clear explanations with examples about the
  procedure of trade from the application of the
  L/C to the receipt of goods documents.
• Understand the clauses of the credit letters,
  advantages of L/C, and different modes of
  payments the importance of Bill of Lading
• Verify the buyer (or company) invoice the L/C
  to documents receipts from the seller.

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Benefits

• Get the direction guidance from business
  experts and enhance our knowledge about trade
  procedure within our context.
• Give students the basic professional language
  skills vocabulary that will serve them later
  on, in their careers.
• Improve the course design.

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An engaging classroom activity

• Combining teacher-made materials with authentic
  job-specific ones (the use of commercial
  documents, figures and videos) to create
  authentic business contexts.
• Gap filling exercises Demonstration of new
  vocabulary in swifts or L/C clauses, B/L
• Writing a paragraph about the role of banks in
  trade processing based on a problem-solving
  framework (Introduction, diagnose brainstorm
  problem areas, problem statement, supporting
  details (with realistic illustrations), a
  concluding sentence reflect on the advantages/
  disadvantages/limitations

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Students motivation

• Work-based learning supports students-centered
  learning.
• ? It enriches the classroom experience for
  students of business English.
• ?It motivates them to accomplish their writings
  and improve that in pair work through the
  rewriting activity.

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Colleagues feedback

• Strengthening collaborative work.
• Refining the teacher-interns plans prior to
  teaching.
• Working toward improving the course design
  making it more specific making meaningful
  connections between the skills taught in the
  program and the expectations of the workplace.
• Teaching discipline-specific knowledge becomes
  more thoughtfully and interesting for novice ESP
  teachers.
• Integrating authentic teaching resources.

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Obstacles

• Difficulty to get the permission to carry out the
  survey in the central bank.
• Limited time for the work-based learning.
• Being overloaded with financial information.
• Inability to get access to other business
  departments within the central bank.

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Recommendations

• Administrators should carefully examine how and
  what professional development opportunities must
  be provided for their teaching professionals.
• ESP teachers must collaborate ensure that their
  specific-discipline knowledge and skills remain
  current and relevant in order to adequately
  prepare students for their careers.
• It is hoped that such work-based learning
  activity will be applied for other business units
  (Logistics, accounting) in other disciplines
  (medicine, engineering,airline sectors).

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Conclusion

• Work-based leaning is a viable means of providing
  PD opportunities for specific-discipline
  teachers.
• It brings a new perspective to the classroom
  the challenges of everyday business life
• ESP teachers will be able to create a real-life
  situation, a variety and meaningful communication
  to the study of business English.
• It is a means to grow professionally and expand
  teaching skills.

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION