TARGET-SITUATION-BASED ENGLISH COURSE DESIGN: DIRECT TRANSFER FROM CLASSROOM TO ACCOUNTING WORKPLACE
Keywords:
Needs, Accounting, Workplace Genres, Target Situations, English for Specific Purposes (ESP)Abstract
Due to an increasing demand for Thai accountants with English language communicative abilities, this paper proposes a framework for designing an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course within a tertiary level accounting curriculum. It is primarily aimed at facilitating the teaching-learning process in discipline-specific English courses in the hope of preparing Thai accounting students to become linguistically competent accounting professionals in their future workplaces. To achieve this goal, the primary intention of this paper is to present an “English for Accounting Workplace” course design in order to highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of conducting a target situation analysis (TSA) under the umbrella of a needs analysis. This highlights the initial stages of devising a target-situation-based course with workplace genres (i.e. spoken and written genres) gathered from real-world target situations; these will be considered the major components of the course design. Overall, it is envisaged that the insightful input presented in this paper will allow accounting curriculum administrators and ESP practitioners to improve the theoretical aspects and comprehensive views relating to procedures, pedagogical issues and course development in devising a target-situations-based English for the accounting workplace course.
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