英语专业开设专门用途英语的可行性研究

分析了给大学四年级英语专业学生开设专门用途英语(ESP)——"汽车英语"课程的可行性。ESP课程的教学材料从现有的资料中按照教学要求、目的选取。经过17周的教学,对学生掌握的汽车英语知识、翻译能力进行测试。结果表明,学生在学习课文和翻译课文过程中,能够逐渐掌握一些基本的汽车知识,能够较通顺地翻译汽车技术方面的文章。对教学材料的分析表明,在一篇技术文章中,技术词汇占的比例很小,因此,给英语专业学生开设汽车英语课程是可行的。

Study of ESP Course Offered to English Major Students

The research aims to study the teaching of the subject-specific ESP,Automobile English,to the fourth year English major students. For this ESP course,teaching materials have to be selected from the existing materials to fit the purpose.The basic knowledge of the subject is very important to the translation of the subject materials.After the 17-week instruction,the students' translation and mastery of the basic knowledge of the subject are measured.The test scores are compared and the results suggest that the students can pick much knowledge of the automobile through learning the materials and translating them,and they can translate the texts of the subject.It is possible to offer Automobile English to English major students.Other subject-specific ESP,such as English for Electronics,English for Textile,etc.,could also be offered to the English major students.