Problems in Transforming EGP Teachers in China’s Universities into ESP Teachers

Because of the significant cultural and economic shifts in China along with a turn toward student-centered instruction in Universities, there was an insufficient number of English for Specific Purpose (ESP) Teachers in Chinese universities. As a result English for General Purpose (EGP) Teachers had to be transformed into ESP Teachers. The study uses 65 of the converted ESP teachers to determine the difficulties teachers had in making this transformation. Some measures used to determine the problems related to the transformation of these teachers are presented in the paper