Book to teach English for specific purposes to 7th and 8th level students of the Foreign Trade School at PUCE Esmeraldas, 2018

Abstract

Tesis previa obtención del título de Licenciado/a en Lingüística Aplicada mención Inglés To design a book to teach English for the specific purpose of Foreign Trade at PUCE Esmeraldas, a descriptive qualitative-quantitative investigation was done, in the year 2018, with a population of 36 students, and 10 teachers from the 7th and 8th levels of Foreign Trade at the referred career. The methods of analysis and synthesis, hermeneutics, and statistics, were used with the technique of survey. The results revealed that the majority of the students considered that a didactic material was needed to learn ESP about their career, with themes related to foreign trade, administration, economics and international marketing; alongside, with terms specific to the specialty such as: international contract, customs, money market, airport, and secondary zone; plus, communicative functions like interviewing people in customs, exporting, importing, and marketing. The results also revealed that the methods the pupils would like to use in the classroom are translation, and the communicative approach.