Analysis of ESP Syllabus: Analysing the Book Basic English for Computing as a Sample and Testing its Suitability for ESP Learners in Public and Private Yemeni and Saudi Arabian Universities

Purpose: Any syllabus could be evaluated and analysed in terms of design and format and
achieving the goals of the designed syllabus in reality; in this paper the first type of analysis is
conducted in addition to integrating the researcher’s experience of teaching ESP in Yemen and
Saudi Arabia.
Method: Reviewing previous and related literature along with collected data from the text
book, the researcher used different types of methodologies to come up with detailed analysis
of the above named ESP book.
Results: The book Basic English for Computing seems to have high standard design and format
as an ESP curriculum in terms of: planning stage, implementation, evaluation, and
management, and in terms of selection and grading of the content and tasks of the curriculum
as an ESP syllabus as well. However and from the research’s perspective, this syllabus in spite of
its high standards, it doesn’t suit the level of ESP learners in both public and private Yemeni
Universities due to misuse and wrong interpretation of the term ESP in Yemen among English
teachers, specialists in the field of English language and decision-makers as well.
Conclusions: It is the learner, the environment learning, and the teacher rather than the book
that would greatly affect on deciding the success of achieving the goals of a certain syllabus and
testing its usability in a certain country where English is being taught and/or learned for specific
purposes.