Beschreibung
English is the lingua franca of business and it is considered to be an important asset for professionals of all work fields. Engineering, Finance and Technology are only a few of the professions that require deep and specialized knowledge of English in order for someone to be successful in them. However, it is often the case that the weight of the decision on what the learners should be taught is placed upon ESP teachers. Most of the times, they find themselves in the difficult position of choosing materials or designing a course for a discipline for which they have no particular knowledge of. This book aims at assisting the difficult project of what to teach and how. The suggested profile contains information on what communicative situations hotel accountants face in their workplace and how that can be employed so as to create tailor-made teaching materials. It therefore provides the tools and methods for everyone interested in creating their own materials for a particular ESP class.
Autorenporträt
Penelope Fotini Papadaki has graduated from the School of English and Literature of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.She holds a Master's Degree in the area of TESOL and her research interests include ESP teaching, adult education and material design. She has been an English teacher in Primary and Secondary Education for the last 13 years.
