Theoretical Framework of ESP: The Major Case Studies in the Hotel Industry and Translation as Necessary Input

The present paper aims at providing a theoretical overview of English for Specific Purposes as one of the major areas of EFL teaching since its beginnings in the 1960s. It presents the developments related with the theoretical aspects concerning ESP and needs analysis as the cornerstone in designing ESP courses in English language teaching and learning. The most influential ESP teaching theories are summarised briefly, beginning with register analysis which paved the way for course designers to design specific courses based on teaching the linguistic features of a language to the urgent need for developing communication and translation. At the end, based on the nature of the hotel industry, the purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to mention some previous case studies related to hotels because most of the linguistic researches conducted by ESP specialists focused in particular on the formal aspects of a language especially in the academic field and neglected the needs of the occupational settings; 2) to discuss the major needs of the employees in hotels and the significance of translation in this industry and therefore proposing possible solutions to overcome any deficiencies

The English Language Communicative Needs of Third Year LMD Students at Biology Department at the Centre University of Naama

The current research work attempts to have an overview of the linguistic needs and thereby propose useful suggestions for biology students consisting of 20 participants. Further, the sample of the study consisted of 20 students, 7 are males and 13 are females who were enrolled in Naama Centre University in the department of biology during the second semester. More specifically, the recommendations are proposed to meet the students’ needs since several obstacles were found to be problematic for any ESP course.  For the sake of testing the hypothesis and achieving the aim of the study, mixed method research approach was used to collect data. A questionnaire was developed and addressed to the students to collect the quantitative data in addition to a classroom observation and an interview with the teacher to obtain qualitative data. The results of the current study confirmed the investigated hypothesis and disclosed that biology students need the four linguistic skills with a special emphasis on reading and writing skills in addition to the acquisition of terms related to their discipline