o:26118 ESP – The Essential Stepping Stone to a Teaching Career en Foreign languages for general and specific purposes make an essential part of one’s academic education and are indispensable to young professionals today. Unlike second-language contexts, foreign-language settings do not necessarily imply the use of a foreign language as the medium of instruction. This paper presents ESP as a springboard course in the academic education of the future preschool and primary school teachers who aspire to teach English to young learners. Since the primary area of study of these gifted students is not linguistics or philology, the fact that a significant part of their university education is conducted in English as a medium of instruction adds relevance to ESP as an essential stepping stone in their professional training. Drawing on the students’ general EL knowledge, and introducing them to the basic pedagogical, psychological and didactic principles of teaching, their ESP course further evolves into a comprehensive programme of study and professional training, permiating all their other courses conducted in English and complementing their core curriculum subjects taught in the native language. Besides the integrated knowledge and skills, these students are provided with bilingual academic experience they will be able to transfer to young learners once they become in-service English language teachers. Keywords: English for specific purposes, EMI, integrated curriculum, preschool and primary school teachers, young learners. 1552100 978-86-81018-07-1 2022-06-24T11:36:13.547Z 44 yes 46 Наташа Јанковић Универзитет у Београду Учитељски факултет 0000-0002-9975-1685 application/pdf 84147 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:26118 no yes 1 70 92000004 11A42 Језик - струка - наука Књига сажетака 16 Друштво за стране језике и књижевности Србије 2021 http://www.uf.bg.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Book-of-Abstracts-2021.pdf