THE DESIGN AND USE OF COURSEBOOKS IN THE MODULE OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) CASE STUDY: ESP TEACHERS AT MASCARA UNIVERSITY IN ALGERIA

The teaching of the module of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is becom-ing increasingly common at Algerian universities, notably in the departments of English language and literature and in the scientific and technical departments where English is taught. This module is provided by teachers, who are either specialized in ESP or in Eng-lish, to students of different levels and different specializations. Naturally, to teach this module, the teachers need to have the right pedagogical material to help them be effec-tive in their performance, which is known as the coursebook. Hence, the objective of this paper is to identify, explain and evaluate the teachers' position towards ESP coursebook design, and to give recommendations related to that in the Algerian context. To this end, a questionnaire will be given to some GE and ESP teachers from an Algerian university located in the west of the country: Mascara University, Algeria. This paper analyses the results of that survey and discusses the most important findings.