Electronic Theses and Dissertation

English for specific purpose (esp) is language teaching designed to meet specific needs of people studying or working in specific field. esp is an approach which into account the students' needs in learning english. esp has been applied at fakultas kesehatan masyarakat (fkm) university of muhammadiyah banda aceh. the availability of relevant teaching materials and the lecturer knowledge of esp are crucial elements for success of esp teaching at most vocational school applying esp based teaching program. a study related to the above matter was conducted at fkm. a set questionnaire consisting of 10 questions was handed out to 25 students as the sample of the study. in order to find more information also was distributed other set of questionnaire to the lecturers. the result of the study shows that 16 students (64%) stated the teaching materials given by their lecturers ware relevant with their field of study (public health). all lecturers (100%) confirmed that they had sufficient knowledge in teaching esp.