Feasibility Research on Cross-strait ESP Cooperative Teaching

As a worldwide used language, English has become one of a country's strategic advantages. In today's global economy, specialization is in great demand in today's job market and the competition of talent is drastic increasingly. In these circumstances,traditional college English education which emphasized EGP (English for General Purpose) lacked goal orientation. Therefore, the trend of ESP (English for Specific Purpose) teaching in universities is irreversible. Compared with the late and slow development of ESP teaching in China mainland, ESP teaching in Taiwan is more practical when integrating with the improvement of vocational ability. In recent years, there have been increasingly frequent exchanges and cooperation for university education among the three places, which provided the foundation for Cross-strait ESP Cooperative Teaching. The cooperation can be conducted around the following aspects:(1) To strengthen cross-strait exchanges for ESP theory.(2) To share resources of ESP teaching.(3) To co-construct practical training bases.