The Impact of Effective Teaching Materials on Fostering ESP Learners’ Autonomy Case Study of 1 st year Master Students Geology Petroleum at UKMO

Abstract

Teaching materials are not only a mean of facilitating the complexity of language to learners. They seem to be a source of motivation when they reflect effectiveness and a way that ESP learners follow to achieve their target needs. The main purpose of the present enquiry is to investigate the impact of effective teaching materials (texts, task and activities) on fostering ESP learners’ autonomy. In order to obtain the data for supporting the hypotheses of this study, two procedures are used, a questionnaire addressed to 1 st year master geology petroleum students and structured interview is held with two teachers of English at geology department (university of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla). In the basis of the results obtained from the students questionnaire and teachers’’ interview, effective teaching materials have an impact on promoting ESP learners autonomy.