ESP的特点是把英语作为手段或工具来学习,以便进一步学习专业知识或有效地完成各项工作。大学英语后阶段的专业英语教学就是典型的ESP教学。国外对ESP研究已经取得了许多有价值的成果,而我国由于起步较晚,ESP的教学与研究仍处在探索阶段,有许多问题有待认识和加以解决。 The characteristic of ESP is to use English as a means or a tool to learn further in order to further learn professional knowledge or to complete various tasks effectively. Post-university English teaching is a typical ESP teaching. Foreign countries have made many valuable achievements in ESP research. However, due to the late start, ESP teaching and research is still in the exploratory stage. Many problems need to be understood and solved.