Custom Design Training can design, develop and deliver short duration programmes of up to 3 weeks duration designed to meet clients’ specific ESP requirements. This would include Business English programmes for foreign countries which can either be delivered at CDT’s centre or the client’s facilities.

The ESP and the General Management Development programmes can be packaged together to offer to overseas companies with the intention of bringing managers over to Singapore for short intensive immersion English programmes.

What is ESP (English for Special Purposes)?

If we think of everyday conversational English as standard English that the large majority of English speakers use to communicate with each other then English for Special Purposes includes just about everything else. In Corporate, Academic and Professional settings a wide variety of specialized use of English is extremely common.

As with General English, context, determines to a very great degree the meaning of vocabulary. In a sense this the simplest and most telling clue to understanding English For Special Purposes

English for special purposes is similar to in some ways to the in group use of the language that you find in some social groups such as popular music fans or computer game enthusiasts. However, Corporate, Academic and Professional English for special purposes is more formal and less changing than these more casual forms of the language. Corporate, Academic and Professional English for special purposes usually has more rules for correct and clear use than the more casual forms.

Business English in general and within Business such as , Accountancy English, Business Law, English for Logistics, Different products and services have their own distinct vocabulary . For instance Tourism: and within Tourism, Hoteliers, Food, Beverage and Travel. From the manufacture and sales of everything from Automobiles to Zippers there are different and distinct vocabulary as well as different meanings and uses for similar words. All aspects of the legal profession- English for Law, English for Science and all the separate specializations within

From this perspective every first year university course is an English For Special purposes course English for Academic purposes; writing, speaking and lecturing have very definite rules and structures. Academic Writing can vary according to the academic subject (or academic discipline) as well as the nature of the audience that the writer has as their target group. A similar scientific article for the newspaper will be different from one for National Geographic, or for a scholarly journal.

E.S.P. is also a requirement for many manufacturing line workers, especially managers and supervisors. The English of Meat Packing and the English of Hotel Reception desk Staff ( service in English is expected by many English as a second Language Tourists throughout the world ) along with English For Sea farers ( Required of all officers and ratings since 2002)