Encouraging Students to Speak in English for Specific Purposes Lessons

Abstract

Getting students to use English in the classroom is one of the biggest challenges of teaching. ESP lesson is even more difficult. This presentation will describe some techniques to help students speak in scientific English in the classroom and encourage them to use English in their future jobs too. This is a classroom-based research with my studentsof Medicine at Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” in Albania. This research encourages students to take an active, collaborative approach to speaking by doing various activities. In addition, it allowsthe English professors to build a successful work, in particular, work which focuses on the technical English language structure. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of the speaking skills in the ESP classroom in order to get a perfect acquisition of the second language and suggest some activities to promote speaking.