1. Is an approach to English language teaching aimed at specific fields (scientific, technological, economic and academic).
2. Types of ESP
2.1. Occupational purposes
2.1.1. Professional purposes
2.1.1.1. English for
2.1.1.1.1. Medical purposes
2.1.1.1.2. Business purposes
2.1.2. Vocational purposes
2.1.2.1. Pre-vocational
2.1.2.2. vocational
2.2. Academic purposes
2.2.1. English for
2.2.1.1. science
2.2.1.2. Technology
2.2.2. English for
2.2.2.1. Medicine
2.2.3. English for
2.2.3.1. Law
2.2.4. English for
2.2.4.1. Finances
2.2.4.2. Economy
3. Phases
3.1. Register analysis
3.1.1. Identify the grammatical and lexical features.
3.2. Rhetorical or discourse analysis
3.2.1. It was concerned with identifying the organizational patterns in the texts and specifying the linguistic means and subsequently creating a curriculum.
3.3. Target situation analysis
3.3.1. It apparently focused on the needs of the students, a situation that was later disproved.
3.4. Skills and strategies
3.4.1. ESP has seen an attempt to look below the surface and to consider not the language itself but the thinking processes thatunderlie language use.
3.5. A learning-centred approach
3.5.1. concerned about what people do with language in order to learn it.