Advanced Reading English For Specific Purpose Role Of Government In Indonesia

English for Specific Purpose (ESP) is important as it will give "a movement based on the proposition that all languange teaching should be tailored to the specipic learning and fanguange use needs of identified groups of students - and also sensitive to the socio cultural contexs in which these students will be using English"
(John & Marchando, 2000:43).

ESP as a form of teaching languange which designed based on the need and identification of the user of languange and the social and cultural background of learners or student, and it was the key languange for the fields of science, technology and commerce. The emergence of ESP teaching movement resulted from the English languange needs of the learners for specipic purposes in accordance with their professions or job descriptions
(Hutchinson and Waters {1987, P.6). Cheng, dkk (2008).


It is believed that languange acquisition would be most effectively facilitated if it could be embedded with the learners' field of study or work. Through appropriate pedagogy for learning, the more the learners are exposed to real world tasks, the better the langiange users they will become (Nunan, 1988).