ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC ACADEMIC PURPOSES AS NEED AND TOOL OF EFL PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCY FORMATION

If we put compulsory education aside, people have always learned a language for a special purpose. This could be the need to communicate with someone who does not speak a shared language about something 'specific' (Kern, 2013). English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has a long history and has become increasingly popular since the 1960s. No investigations devoted to the problem of teaching English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) as a need and a tool of EFL pre-service teachers' communicative competency formation have been made so far. The authors of this paper pioneered to meet this challenge. For the solution of the goal of the research - compilation of the glossary and development of training and test exercises which were aimed at facilitating specific academic vocabulary in ESAP class for the formation of EFL pre-service teachers' communicative competency - a multi-staged experiment was conducted. At the initial stage, 42 EFL pre-service teachers who are Master's Degree students were interviewed. The research revealed that what EFL pre-service teachers need is to learn to use specific academic vocabulary and communicate proficiently. The practical output of the research consists in the possibility of using approbated materials of ESAP glossary in EFL pre-service teachers' training. The findings of the research can serve as general recommendations for university faculties and can be widely used in ESAP class and language training courses. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK