RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY ENGLISH IS A COMPULSORY SUBJECT AT HO CHI...

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Rationale for the Study

English is a compulsory subject at Ho Chi Minh city University of Industry ( HUI ) Nghe

An campus. As a consequence ESP is also an importantly compulsory subject for

students who passed the GE courses. Having a good knowledge of GE and especially

ESP is considered to be necessary means for any graduates who wish to find a good job,

better in foreign companies or banks. Therefore, there is a growing and wide demand to

learn English at universities. As for the second year students at HUI Nghe An campus,

ESP in general , and English for Finance and Banking in particular is extremely

important because the students are expected to become people who work in the local

banks and the international banks. Thus, in the curriculum for Banking English there are

parts for four language skills. However, in this training base the teacher does realize that

reading is given the greatest account of the four skills in the course books. Moreover, in

comparison with writing, speaking and listening, it is reading that will be used most often

in the students‟ future jobs.

To meet the demand of the learners, many ESP programmes have been

designed. Together with the worldwide trend to learn ESP, the teaching staff of Finance

and Banking Department at HUI collected documents and designed some ESP

programmes for Finance and Banking students at HUI. Therefore, to improve reading

English skill in Finance and Banking by working out some problems which may

negatively have influence on students‟ learning reading English for Finance and Banking

and then suggest some possible solutions to overcome those problems.