Teaching Esp To Logistics Management Students

[Buki]

good day. My Thai counterpart passed me one of her classes, which is to teach ESP to logistics management students. Does anybody here in the forum have any experience teaching this course? The school doesn't have existing curriculum and it seemed to be a bit complex course to teach since its very specific.

Suggestions, recommendations, or advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

[PeaceBlondie]

good day. My Thai counterpart passed me one of her classes, which is to teach ESP to logistics management students. Does anybody here in the forum have any experience teaching this course? The school doesn't have existing curriculum and it seemed to be a bit complex course to teach since its very specific.

Suggestions, recommendations, or advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

Hi, Buki. I'm sure ESP doesn't mean extra sensory perception, or English-Spanish-Polish. Is it EFL, ESL, or that specific English for Special Purposes? Are the students almost all native speakers of Thai, and not very fluent in English.

Logistics is a fancy word for "supply" and managers are the bosses of supply clerks and maybe truck drivers. Just guessing: how to read a shipping manifest? Words like inventory? Concepts such as 'just-in-time inventory'? Has your Thai counterpart not even taught this before, or taught it without notes? Are the students motivated?

[Buki]

good day. My Thai counterpart passed me one of her classes, which is to teach ESP to logistics management students. Does anybody here in the forum have any experience teaching this course? The school doesn't have existing curriculum and it seemed to be a bit complex course to teach since its very specific.

Suggestions, recommendations, or advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

Hi, Buki. I'm sure ESP doesn't mean extra sensory perception, or English-Spanish-Polish. Is it EFL, ESL, or that specific English for Special Purposes? Are the students almost all native speakers of Thai, and not very fluent in English.

Logistics is a fancy word for "supply" and managers are the bosses of supply clerks and maybe truck drivers. Just guessing: how to read a shipping manifest? Words like inventory? Concepts such as 'just-in-time inventory'? Has your Thai counterpart not even taught this before, or taught it without notes? Are the students motivated?

Hi, its English for Specific Purposes. All the students are native Thai speakers and low beginners of the English language. This is the first year of this course and our Thai teachers haven't taught ESP for logisitcs before. I haven't met my students yet but I just wanted to prepare or design a curriculum to fit their needs. So I was thinking of teaching them 50 % of ESP and 50% of business English.

[PeaceBlondie]

Buki, I'm not meaning to sound mean or demeaning about education in Thailand. However, as I was telling somebody over the phone tonight, results don't usually matter. Dress well, speak slowly and clearly, smile a lot, act as if you care, act as if it really matters, and give it your best effort. Most of the students don't care what you say; the other ajarns are way too busy to even observe you; false rumors could crucify you without warning anyway; and it's kind of a charade at the end of the day when the fat lady sings. Just sing along.

[mopenyang]

good day. My Thai counterpart passed me one of her classes, which is to teach ESP to logistics management students. Does anybody here in the forum have any experience teaching this course? The school doesn't have existing curriculum and it seemed to be a bit complex course to teach since its very specific.

Suggestions, recommendations, or advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

Always, always first do a Google search when hit with something like you've been hit with, and here's an example of why:

http://swengelsk.com/Logistic/LogEngl1.htm

The wheel only had to be invented once.

Good luck!

[pauleddy]

If they are low level/pre-intermediate, then you can't really teach 100% ESP specific to Supply/Warehousing and Transport.

Some of your time, certainly at first, will be on basics. For example, many of them will not be able to count 'well' in the high numbers (445 ships need 929 containers) Numbers and weights are very important in logistics.

Maybe they can do agrammar revisit. Thais are notoriously bad at articles/basic tenses and other parts of language which they can't conceptualise because in Thai they don't exist, or exist in very different forms.

AFAIK there is no textbook for ESP Logs, so you will also, as you say, be teaching basic Bus Eng. Company structures would be one example. There are a number of books which cover basics.

Evidently, they will also need to do stuff like telephone skills.

If they are pretty good, you could get each of them to deliver a 3 minute presentation about their jobs. The language may not be fluent, but you get them used to the skill and speaking in class.

There is plenty to be going on with. How many weeks do u have?

PEd

[paulmw]

good day. My Thai counterpart passed me one of her classes, which is to teach ESP to logistics management students. Does anybody here in the forum have any experience teaching this course? The school doesn't have existing curriculum and it seemed to be a bit complex course to teach since its very specific.

Suggestions, recommendations, or advices are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

Hi Buki.

You need more info from your Thai counter part that’s for sure.

Find out what they are specialising in then you can form your L/P around that.

Then Google it or come back here.

Big Big subject Logistics, Road freight, Air freight, Sea freight, rail freight, Warehousing, Operations, Customs & excise, Import Export etc ect.

Plus many of these are sub divided again.

Many western colleges now specialise in one of the above subjects not the vast range of logistics, because of the complexity & they are native English speaking students.

Maybe that’s why your Thai counter part pasted this on to you Buki. (Poisoned challis comes to mind)

Paul.

[Neeranam]

However, as I was telling somebody over the phone tonight, results don't usually matter.

I must disagree PB - results NEVER matter - 'sanook' is much more important.