Figure 1. A comparison of improved test scores between experimental group and control group
When examining learners’ opinions regarding the percentage of English course materials devoted to a specific
area of academic or professional study, it has been found that at the beginning of the freshman year the majority of
learners in the control group prefered a less than 50% of the ESP teaching emphasis in a English course, regardless
of their improved test scores. For the freshman students in the experimental group, it has been found that many of
them would prefer a more than 50% of the ESP approach. The same question was asked in June 2010 when these
students were seniors, the results were somewhat different. Figure 2 shows that for the experiemental group,
learners with a higher improved test scores in MEPT-2 when they were freshman indicated that they prefered a
higher percentage of the ESP material incorported into freshman English course by the time they became seniors