Teaching Foreign Language for Specific Purposes: teacher development

Foreign Language Teachers for Specific Purposes have a lot in common with teachers of general foreign language. It is necessary to consider linguistic development and teaching theories for both, to have insights into contemporary ideas regarding their position and role as well as the position and role of foreign language learners in education, and to face new technologies offered to improve their methodology. The need to understand the requirements of other professions and the willingness to adapt to these requirements differentiate foreign language teachers for specific purposes from their colleagues teaching a general foreign language. ESP teaching presumes teaching English as a foreign language regarding a particular profession, subject, or purpose.