An exploratory study on the teachers and students’ perceptions of an ESP course at the infantry officer training college number one = Nghiên cứu thăm dò nhận thức của giáo viên và học viên đối với khóa học tiếng Anh chuyên ngành ở trường Sy

• Main Author: Kiều, Trí Dũng, 1982-
• Other Authors: Dương, Thị Nụ
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: University of Languages and International Studies 2017
• Subjects: Ngôn ngữ; Phương pháp giảng dạy; Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/39859
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This study was designed to investigate the teachersand students’ perceptions of an ESP courseat the Infantry Officer Training College Number One (IOTC No.1). The investigation aims toexplore: (1) The students’ perceptions oftheir English ability, difficulties, and expectations toward ESP; (2) the teachers’ opinions and perceptions of ESP courses and their expectations of future ESP pedagogy. The participants involved in this study were 165 non-English major military students who had taken ESP course for a semester and 05 instructors who were ESP teachers in the Infantry Officer Training College Number One.The major findings of the present study were summarized as follows: First, the students perceived that their English language competence was inadequate, they were aware of the importance and the difficulties as well as their future needs toward ESP courses. Second, several potential issues arose concerning with ESP, such as instruction time, content of ESP, and ESP teachers’ qualification. Last, the results of this study suggested that a collaborative teaching could be an alternative of present ESP instruction to partially solve the problems.Finally, pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research were provided in the last part of the study.