Evaluation of ESP Course Designed to First Year, Sudanese Law Students Alneelain University From the Students' Perspective

Abstract

The ESP courses were essentially emerged all over the world as a discipline to fulfill the needs of the learners to communicate worldly their speculation. As so, the ESP course is designed to be sufficient in terms of quality and quantity to obtain the aim to which it is designed. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the ESP course taught to the first year students, College of law, Alneelain University in order to judge whether it is adequate or not. The study aims at evaluating this course in the light of the students need in their specialization, investigating the students perception about the real obstacles they face in learning the current ESP course and identifying the students need in terms of legal aspects, and the language skills. In the light of the above aims, the study hypothesizes that the current ESP course is irrelevant for the requirements of legal studies for the purpose of legal communication, it is uninteresting because it is mainly concerned with rules and grammatical forms, it does nothing with the students comprehension of the legal foundations and theories for the purpose of social variables communication because it presents nothing from these aspects, and the functions of this course are not preserved for long time to serve the learners career. The instruments of the study revealed that this course is not scientifically designed to be used as ESP course because basically it was not prepared to achieve the global communication in terms of legal aspects. It is found that this course is a passive, uninteresting and instructor-centered. Furthermore it does not present any chance to use the modern style in teaching by using technology as a visual or oral aid means. According to the findings, the researcher recommends an alternative course to fulfill the real needs of the students depending on the basic standards in designing the ESP courses.