Design and Practice of ESP Teaching in China's General Undergraduate Universities

Basing on the summary of ESP(English for special purposes) teaching and development in China's general undergraduate universities,and combining the ESP branches and talent training objectives of these universities,this article proposes three basic principles for the design of ESP teaching from the aspects of unifying EGP(English for general purposes),bridging EGP and bilingual teaching,and inheritance and innovation.According to these principles,it makes the following designs for ESP teaching: ESP courses should be offered in the second grade;the nature of the courses is bridging EGP and bilingual teaching;the design of teaching objectives is based on needs analysis;the teaching content should take into consideration both the using purposes and the major differences;and there are two kinds of teaching models,task-based teaching model and autonomous learning teaching model.At last,it discusses two major issues in ESP teaching practice,the development of ESP teachers and ESP teaching materials.