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

有人指出，经济学和商学专业的学生最有可能在大学里没有明确的目标或强烈的学习动机。作为参与开发和管理经济学学生英语课程的教师，研究人员寻求帮助学生提高对学习目标的认识，带着特定的目的学习英语，并确立他们作为经济学学生的身份的可能性。研究人员通过问卷调查来考察一年级学生的归属感，并分析了学生在英语经济学入门课程中不同类型练习的表现，以及他们如何对待课程的问卷调查。结果表明，除其他外，学生需要在各种具有挑战性的英语生产性响应任务中获得更多经验，这是学习经济学的重要组成部分。

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.