Towards Professionally-Oriented Reading Proficiency: ESP Curriculum Design

Adapting the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) curriculum to the current socio-economic needs is imperative in terms of endowing undergraduates with the necessary skills to function efficiently in both academic and professional settings. In the era of knowledge and specialization, reading competence has proven to be an essential skill for the acquisition of authentic specialized input; implicitly, it constitutes the premise for a sound communication competence development. The article aims to discuss the framework, challenges, and affordances of designing the ESP curriculum, the teaching objective of which is to foster engineering students’ English language learning by means of efficient specialized text exploration