ON CRITERIA FOR SELECTING MATERIAL FOR TEACHING ESP TO ECOLOGICAL FACULTY STUDENTS

Abstract

The present research considers criteria for selecting study material for teaching English for Special Purposes (ESP) to advanced students of environmental faculties. Texts for study should meet the following basic criteria: be focused on the students future specialty, informative, up-to-date; have a polemical focus that encourages debate and discussion; be authentic, rich in scientific terminology, with complicated grammatical constructions, coherent, logically arranged, and clear-cut. In this study, Mark Lynass book The God Species is evaluated as ESP teaching material. It is proved that this book can be used as teaching material since it meets all the criteria mentioned above. The results obtained are evaluated by the teachers.

Keywords

• der unterricht der fremdsprachen
• fachorientiertes englisch
• das lehrmaterial
• die auswahlkriterien
• english for specific purposes (esp)
• teaching material
• subject-specific material
• selection criteria