Design od an EAP course centered on the communicate languaje teaching CLT methodology project addressed to the staff of lectures at San Francisco de Asis university

Abstract

This project is premised on the topic of English for academic purposes and communicative use of language in EAP classes. The design supports the use of communicative approach in EAP classes which makes language learning experience more relevant and meaningful. There is also an encouragement to apply the outgrowth of the communicative approach in view of the fact that it makes the EAP learners communicatively competent. The whole study will deal with the idea of how communicative language teaching is related to EAP settings as well as the reasons for why EAP students are assumed to learn more effectively if a communicative method. This project is developed in four Chapters. The first Chapter explains about the English as a foreign language (EFL) and how it has become a tool in Education and it is a requirement for students and professional people in order to get good opportunities at the same times it shows the objective and the justification. The second Chapter presents the referential framework for our project giving an explanation of the linguistic foundations for course design at the same time taking into account the EAP field and the communicative approach. The third chapter is the proposal. This chapter gives an account of the steps followed to develop the course. The fourth chapter deals with the conclusion and recommendations.