ESP is a kind of English teaching model that students' learning demand determines the content and methods of teaching, emphasizing the instrumentality and pragmatic nature of English. It contains clear objectives and target with high practical value. Combining basic requirements for English teaching during the transition from research university to applied technology university, the paper analyzes the results of ESP teaching questionnaire, including ESP motivation and attitude, ESP curriculum and duration setting, ESP teachers and teaching methods, points out that the current situation and problems faced by ESP teaching, and makes some suggestions. ESP teaching should reflect the function of English using as a teaching tool, so as to achieve the purposes of guiding instructors' teaching practice, changing students' language knowledge into language skills, making teaching goals and objectives consistent with employment target, cultivating talents adapting to the needs of job market.
