An ESP approach to developing English programs promoting self-awareness of students' own purposes for studying English

研究指出，经济学和商业科学专业的学生在大学期间最有可能没有明确的学习目的或强烈的学习动机。作为参与开发和管理经济学专业学生英语课程的教师，研究人员寻求各种可能性来帮助学生提高对学习目标的认识，以特定的目的学习英语，并确立他们作为经济学专业学生的身份。研究人员进行了问卷调查，考察了一年级学生的归属感，并分析了学生在英语经济学入门课不同类型练习中的表现，以及询问他们如何处理课程工作的问卷。研究结果表明，学生们需要更多的经验来应对各种富有挑战性的英语产出性反应任务，这是学习经济学的一个重要部分。

It is pointed out students majoring in economics and commercial science are most likely to spend their college days without specific purposes or strong motivation to study. As instructors involved in developing and managing English programs for economics students, the researchers sought possibilities to help students to raise awareness of their goals of studying, to study English with specific purposes in mind, and to establish their identity as economics students. The researchers conducted questionnaire surveys to examine the sense of belongingness of the first-year students, and also conducted analyses of the students' performance on different types of exercises for the course of Introductory Economics in English as well as the questionnaires asking how they approached the coursework. The results suggest, among others, that the students need more experience in a variety of challenging productive response tasks in English, which is an essential part of studying Economics.