DESIGNING ESP PRACTICAL TASKS FOR IT STUDENTS

This study shares the possibilities of designing ESP practical tasks for teach-ing IT students. The aim of the study is to discover the students’ needs for learning ESP and design new practical tasks closely connected with professional English practical tasks for IT students. Our study consists of phases are accommodating to students’ needs, analyzing the syllabus and manuals for teaching professional English for developing the practical tasks based on the students’ needs in their future job, approving the new practi-cal tasks by the experts. Data is collected using questionnaires and interviews of students and teachers. Participants of the pedagogical experiment are the 2nd and the 3d year stu-dents of «Computing Engineering» and «Business Informatics» educational programs and teachers of ESP from S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro technical Research University. The results contribute that ESP practical tasks have effect on the way IT students learn profes-sional English and the way IT students think. The study information has practical invest-ment for designing materials for ESP. Keywords: analyzing, professional English, , tasks, IT, developing model.