Who is the best ESP teacher?

The best ESP teacher is the one who is able to identify their learner's needs and interests. It should possess the ability to defy their limits of curiosity and to awake learner's passion for the language and it's connection with a foreign language.

Angela Diaz Franco

Hello! I think the best ESP teacher is the one who is able to take risks and help students to achieve their goals and objectives. An ESP teacher should be able to teach according to the students´context and needs.

(Lopez Rosario)

Hello, everybody!

In my opinion the best ESP teacher is the one who guides correctly to the students. Obviously, communication is the main implement to start working in the classroom.

Cheers!

Carolina Cortez

Hi classmates! from my point of view, a good ESP teacher is the one who is creative, flexible, imaginative and first of all who plans the lesson according to the students´needs.

Noelia Follonier

From my point of view the best ESP teacher must be innovative, thoughtful and above all too much caring so that he can motivate and inspire ESP learners to pursue their academic courses diligently and to outperform in their professional careers. ESP teachers need to have a strong will in teaching those who are not majoring English as their subject.

As ESP takes time to learn, then only an English teacher with some time on a proffesional area might become a good ESP teacher. this i because ESP takes time to develop and expertise on a subject too. once a teacher is satified with an area, she becomes an adequate tool to teach others.

SILVIA MURUA

I think that the best ESP teacher is someone who designs lesson plans according to the students' needs.

This,a good teacher is eager to learn together with the students.

María Cerdán

Hello folks!

To my knowledge, the ESP teacher should be humble enough so as to recognize his/her knowledge is limited regarding the specific area to be taught. By having this honest attitude, it will be easier to establish a positive relationship with the learners.Moreover, it will allow teachers to reflect upon and improve their teaching strategies.

Carlos Ferreyra

Hello!

I think the best ESP teacher is one who pays close attention to the needs of learners. Therefore, an ESP teacher should act as a simultaneous teacher and counselor. The teacher should go beyond classroom settings, cooperating and collaborating with content teachers.

Hello everyone!

In my opinion The best ESP teacher is the one who is able to listen his/her students in order to understand and focus on their students' needs and their improvements, te teacher should be creative in order to design the approprite material to each group of student and openminded to listen different opinion, in this kind of group the teacher is not the primary knower so in some cases he/she need to listens his/her students opinions and corrections.

Barrozo Candelaria

Hello!

An ESP teacher is the one who has to be sensitive to cultural differences, i.e. that the teacher has to teach according to the students' contexts. The teacher needs to assess the effectiveness of the teaching material used on the course. So, I think that it is not the same to teach students who live in the city rather than to teach students who are from the countryside, because the students' backgrounds are different.

Ariadna Quispe

After reading the material I can say that the best ESP teacher is the person who can identify his/her students' needs, wants and lacks. Also, he/she should be able to research and design material to provide his/her students with the necessary skills for the specific situations they will face in real life.

Claudia F. Benitez

I think the best ESP teacher is the one that takes risks and leaves the confort zone so as to help students attain their goals and objectives. A flexible teacher ready to deal with whatever comes up unexpectedly in the classroom.

(Silvia Astengo)

Hi!

In my view, the best ESP teacher is someone who successfully addresses the student’s needs. Both EFL teachers and L1 proficients in their subject areas have characteristics that help to support the learning and teaching process. It’s important to be curious, creative and work collaboratively so as to develop teaching methodologies, strategies and materials that best fulfil the learner’s needs, interests and objectives.

Cheers,

Iván

Hi everyone! I'm Alejandra Sobrado, from Olavarria, Buenos Aires.

After listening to Silvana Richardson's session, I could say that qualifications, expertise and professional teaching experience are much more important than the place where we were born. However, we have to keep on working on (and spreading) this idea, since there is lot of discrimination towards non-native teachers, and in Richardson's words "it is a cycle that needs breaking", when aiming at valuable English lessons.

Being a teacher goes beyond knowing the target language from birth. It requires training, studying, researching, expertising, not just speaking!

Hi! I would like to mention that an ESP teacher will need to be creative, thoughtful, and able to design a bridge between students' needs and their final objectives. Apart from that, being able to select and design relevant material. Moreover, establishing a good rapport with students to be capable of solving any issues that might appear along the way.

Hello everyone! I’ m Selva Villalba. I think that the best teacher of ESP is a person who knows the needs of his or her students and must be update.

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In my opinión, the best ESP teacher is the one that can work in a team with the student (who Knows about his/her real needs) and the experts in the subject the ESP course is about. I believe team work is key. Appart from that, the best ESP teacher Can also be flexible and adapt to changes in the student’s needs and be able to change the curricula or the activities when needed.

Yanina

The best ESP teacher is someone reflective who can implement change, continue to question their actions and monitor their learners' responses. An ESP teacher is aware not only of their learners' initial needs but also of the evolving needs throughout their learning. Also, it is someone who accepts the discomfort of teaching how the language works in an area they are unfamiliar with.

Carla Ayuso.

I consider that the best ESP teacher is a teacher who can provide to the learners the opportunity to nurture their learning process. It is also capable of having in mind the students' needs (needs analysis) in order to plan the right strategies to teach the specific topics. The best ESP teacher can work together with the learners, the professionals in the different fields. Besides, he/she is a truly observer, a good listener who can generate genuine communication and is good at reading and writing, too. The ESP educator must be curiuos in order to improve the teaching learning process realizing that the key role in the classroom owns to the learners.

ILLESCAS PUZIO, DULCE

The best ESP teacher is “an EFL teacher with some knowledge in the subject-area” but who knows about methodology and can teach students strategies and techniques to improve fluency and communication skills”, as J Day explains. We can say that the best ESP teacher is the one who shows extreme flexibility under unexpected circumstances (Ana Almagro Esteban).

Sandra Torres

After having read the materials provided, many ideas come to my mind and I must admit that it's difficult to express a short definition related to the best ESP teacher. As this duty conveys many characteristics that make the task even more valuable, I dare say that this kind of teacher is of a different type, because he or she will devote most of their time helping and providing answers to their students' specific needs. For this reason, here are some features and I'm sure there many more: provider, monitor, collaborator, counsellor, helper, trainer, planner and behind the already mentioned, there is hard-working person who surely loves the profession.

Cecilia

Hi everyone!!

In my opinion, ESP teachers should be a professional that is prepared to face different situation in the field where he/she is trying to teach English. I think, that ESP teacher and ESP practitioners should know about the educational field and the specific field where they teach English. Because, the act of teaching implies, not only the knowledge about the processes about teaching and learning, but also the different aspects and characteristics of evaluation, methodology and group of students.

Navarro, Fernando

Hello classmates! I think that a good ESP teacher should be open-minded in order to include as many related-contents as possible that fit student's needs so as to help him/her to achieve his/her goals. Similarly, the teacher should be also ready to make decisions at random or whenever is necessary in case he/she needs to modify the course design after or while assessing the student's needs and knowledge. Last but not least, I truly believe that a good ESP teacher should provide a productive and honest feedback.

Andrea S. Aguilera

Hello everyone!

After going through all the material provided in our virtual classroom I adhere to the idea of the ESP teacher as a very well trained and expert practioner, material designer, researcher, collaborator and evaluator who is ready to help students in the teaching learning process with the goal of meeting students' needs and wants and capable of dealing with student's lacks as well.

Silvia Ulfsjöö

Hello mates,

I think the best ESP teacher is the one who constantly reflects upon the material they are using with their students and make thoughtful decisions about it. That is to say, they modify what doesn´t work, change the way, adapt, try to improve, etc. Besides, the best ESP teacher never takes things for granted but explains everything…

Adriana Macedo

Hi, dear colleagues! In my opinion, the best ESP teacher is a creative and resourceful one, who designs goal-oriented tasks and who uses the appropriate tools and the right techniques which are essential components of the reading process. He/she should also assess and analyze students' needs, integrating motivation, subject-matter and content with the help of relevant language skills. Fernanda Heritier

I consider the best ESP teacher is the one who works together with the bisiness trainer in order to acquire the skills and language related to business communication. Cooperation and Collaboration are the key!!

Paola Gonzalez

Hi everyone!

In my view, the best ESP teacher is the one who takes into account students' needs. Also, a professional who is also able to adapt to constant change and isn't reluctant to ask for help, either from other colleagues or students; knowing one's weaknesses is a strength! The best ESP teacher is the one who is constantly doing research to enrich his/her practices to make lessons worth attending and that will definitely leave a mark.

Melisa Lagún.

Hello everyone !

I could say that the best ESP teacher should be open minded, creative , helpful and flexible. The teacher should pay a particular stress on the learners`needs and preferences.

Lujan Paredes

Hi all!

I think the best ESP teacher is the one who considers her students’ needs to design course materials. An ESP teacher also needs to be acquainted with the subject content area, something which implies reading, researching and understanding it. The ESP teacher should be a facilitator who, by intervening pedagogically, can activate students’ background knowledges and make them learn and use the language for a specific purpose.

Claudia Suarez

Hello! In my opinion, the ESP teacher should be prepared for the specific content that the students require. The teacher might be trained to support the content to be taught with specialized and scientific sources to provide students with the most appropriate knowledge they need for the specific course they might need to learn.

Moreover, all the contents to be taught should always be updated according to the students´needs.

Florencia Tome Schabehorn

hello!While agreeing with many of the suggestions given in this platform, I would like to add that ESP teachers should also be able to adapt and select authentic materials in the specific discipline to suit the students' level of English. I find that very often, ESP teachers need to design their own curriculum, based on their student's needs. So, some experience of the curriculum development is essential, in my opinion.

Teachers must also get an adequate training in order to feel confident concerning the content and about the teaching methods.

They must be trained or have experienced in teaching adults education since they have to understand and know how to motivate them.

They need a specialized knowledge in the target language as well.

Bustamante Rosana

I'd like to be one of the best ESP teachers in the future! :)

Consequently, the best ESP teacher is the practitioner who is able to identify students' language needs, search for the most appropriate information, design a syllabus as well as useful material and whose assessment is constantly in progress. The best ESP teacher is the one who is open to accept feedback and work collaboratively.

Antonia Lucia Zarate

The best ESP teacher is sb who does research together with a professional of the field in order to know/have access to their sts' subject of study. This T also works collaborativelly with the professional. In addition, they assess their sts on a constant basis and are honest about their processand improvements. What's more, they prepare and design material since most of the time such a specific content hasn't been published. They ask sts if the material provided is suitable for them and revisit when necessary. They are prepared to learn from sts and to identify what skills their sts need.

Jimena Varrenti

What are the challenges for an ESP teacher?

I think that teachers must understand the specific language needs of the learners and design the curriculum accordingly, and this requires constant research and study the lastest developments in the the field.

On the other hand, teachers must create materials and activities because there is no many resources available for specific needs.

Also manage mixed-level classes.

Taking into account these points I consider that a best ESP teacher is someone who can overcome all those obstacles that can be presented to her, learning at the same time and enriching herself with each content she teaches and create

Gianina Vasquez

I think that the best ESP teacher is the one who learns together with his/her students in each class. In this way, the teacher also gradually become an expert in the area. In addition to developing the four skills, he/she teaches communication strategies and exposes students to real situations. The ESP teacher should be a person who admits to not knowing a specific topic, but who works together with his students to discover it.

María Noé López Quiroga

I think the best ESP teacher is someone that sort the variation of content quite interactive, focus on learners' needs, have flexibility, take interest in disciplines or professional learner’s activities, work closely with the specialists, research and adopt the methodology and activities of the target discipline. The best ESP teacher is always learning and adapting material according to the area of teaching.

Fátima Choque

Hello Everyone! I'm Etel Aguirre. For me, the best ESP teacher is the one who can adapt his/ her practice and the material to a specific course. He/she must have considerable flexibility and be willing to listen to learners and other collaborators. The best ESP teacher can work collaboratively with other professionals. This teacher is also someone who is not afraid of taking some risks in his/her teaching.

Hi everyone!

I think that the best ESP teacher is the one who is well prepared for teaching, a proficient English speaker, skilled in strategies, is flexible and able to adapt to the learner's styles, goals and challenges. He/she also has good communication and interpersonal skills and is committed to lifelong learning and professional development.

I consider that a good ESP teacher must be ready to keep on learning and be open minded. The teacher also needs to be a good observer and researcher. Flexibility is also a key aspect in the teacher's profile.

Verónica Antequera

In my opinion the best ESP teacher is the one who adapts better to the changes in learning and teaching.

A person who is confident and well trained in the field, a good researcher and communicator.

A person who knows the students needs, lacks and recognizes his/her limits.

Viviana Irrazabal

I believe that a good ESP teacher should have an interest in a particular area. It is always easier to learn and absorb concepts related to topics that are of interest to us. And even if an ESP teacher will never be an expert like his or her students, he or she may have a lot of knowledge of the subject area and give added value to the classes.

Then, being an ESP teacher requires the responsibility to carefully plan the lessons and anticipate different scenarios for the class.

Finally, a lot of creativity is needed, as there isn´t always ready-to-use material that suits the specific needs of the students.

María Luján Marcaccio

Hello everybody!

I strongly believe that the ESP teacher ia teacher well prepared and. That is to say a teacher who keeps on learning from students and for student's needs too.

a teacher who prepares classes and materials very carefully and with students in mind. And I believe that knowledge about methodology is super important.

J Day mentions the importance of paying attention to methodology and teaching students about strategies to learn.

Sandra Hecker.

Hello! In my opinion, the best ESP teacher is someone who listens and cares for students needs and tries to do what's best for them. Sometimes this includes pushing sts to their limits in order for them to learn in a better way.

(I'm Candelaria La Torre)