CONTENT-BASED SYLLABUS AND COMPETENCY-BASED SYLLABUS FOR ESP COURSES

Since ESP is defined as an approach to language teaching in which students learn the language through content of subject matters in the field of their specialism for which they learn, the most appropriate type of syllabus for ESP courses as proposed by Krahnkeis content-based syllabus with the primary consideration that it integrates the presentation of topics or tasks from subject matter classes (e.g., Biology, Math, Social, Science, etc) within the context of teaching a second or foreign language. Content-based syllabus can be defined as syllabus that the items of which comprises the various forms of language and content integration.