DESIGNING A LEARNER-CENTERED SYLLABUS: INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

ESP is a learner-centered approach to teach English which focuses on promoting the learners’ communicative competencies in a specific discipline such as medicine, engineering, and academics. In other words, it is an approach that enables them to use their English to learn more about English of the field that they are interested in. It further motivates them to interact with its users and their writings.

Conference main tracks

 Challenges in designing and implementing the learner-centered syllabus

 Curriculum development and evaluation

 Effectiveness of approaches to language teaching and learning

 Teacher’s qualifications and ESP syllabus design

 Needs analysis and syllabus design

 Pitfalls of learner-centered curriculum

 Syllabus design and digital learning

 Assessment and evaluation in a learner-centered syllabus

 Course materials development in a learner-centered syllabus

 Course expectations from a learner-centered syllabus

 Models for learner-centered syllabus

 ESP innovations and learner-centered syllabus