ESP Course Design: Case of Master Physics Writing Scientific Papers

The use of skills - centered approach to ESP course designs to overcome the difficulties encountered by master physics students at the University of Tlemcen while writing their scientific papers. The overall aim is to diagnose those difficulties using a triangulation process for data collection and analysis to systematically design the appropriate writing course. To deal with this problematic situation, the following research questions have been proposed: 1. Which type of difficulties master physics students encounter while writing their scientific papers? 2. At which level those difficulties lie? 3. How can ESP teacher training and course design help overcoming those difficulties?

Dr. Abdelkader BENSAFA is currently a teacher at the University of Tlemcen/ department of English/ Algeria. Abdelkader has worked on different ELT domains including: American civilisation, information and communication technology in ELT and ESP or English for specific purposes.