从金融英语培训看ESP教学

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Abstract: The 21 century is an information century. In this new century, English plays an important role in different situations all over the world. As a new and energetic cross-disciplinary comprehensive course, ESP has been carried out in most universities and colleges worldwide. And it also attracts the interest of scholars both at home and abroad. As we all know, financial English is a branch of ESP, and is also an important communicative skill in business situations. This paper is based on my own experience of taking the financial English training course. Through this experience, I found quite a few problems in teaching. In this paper, I will study and research the origins, definition and characteristics of ESP, and then I will analyze the existing problems in the current ESP teaching. And a questionnaire is designed for the classmates who took the financial English training with me. All of them are this year’s graduates of English major in the universities and colleges in Hangzhou. Moreover I will analyze the result of the questionnaire in order to confirm the main drawbacks of the ESP teaching in universities and colleges in Hangzhou and put forward some feasible measures.
Key words: ESP teaching; English teaching; teaching methods

摘  要：21世纪是一个信息时代。在这个新的世纪里，英语已经成为全世界必不可少的语言。作为一门最富有生气和活力的跨领域综合性新兴学科，ESP的教学及应用正在全世界如火如荼地进行，并吸引了各个专业领域学者的兴趣。金融英语是ESP教学中的一个重要部分，也是商务场合中重要的交际技巧。本人基于参加金融英语培训的实际体验，开展本课题的研究。首先，文章综述了ESP的起源、定义和特点，然后分析和归纳了现阶段高校ESP教学中存在的问题，最后针对和我一起参加金融英语培训的在杭高校英语专业的应届毕业生设计了专门的调查问卷，通过对问卷结果数据的分析, 进一步证实当前高校ESP教学中存在的问题，并针对这些问题提出相关的可行性建议。
关键词：ESP教学；英语教学；教学方法

CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1. The Origin, Definition and Characteristics of ESP 2
1.1 The Origin and Definition of ESP 2
1.2 The Characteristics of ESP 3
2. Inspiration From Joining The Financial English Training in TATA Information Technology (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. 4
2.1 Reasons for Joining the Financial English Training 4
2.2 The Teaching Method and Content of Financial English in TATA. 5
2.3 The Effect of the Financial English Training in TATA. 6
2.4 Conclusion 6
3. The Current Situation of the ESP Teaching in the Universities and the Colleges in Hangzhou 7
3.1 The Existing Problems of the ESP Teaching. 7
3.2 The Data Analysis of Questionnaire 8
4. Some Suggestions for The ESP Teaching in The Universities and The Colleges 11
4.1 A Clear Aim of the ESP Teaching 12
4.2 The Renovation of the Teaching Method 13
4.3 The Selection of the Teaching Material 14
5. Conclusion 15
Bibliography 17

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