Here we again approach to teaching the two types of English – the General and the Specific. Both of
them develop one’s ability to communicate in any form – oral or written. In both cases linguistic knowledge
includes the correctness of grammatical structures, proper choice of words and precision of their meaning.
The primary goal in teaching ESP is to provide the student with practical use of English revising the
knowledge built earlier. ESP concentrates not only on the recognition of particular structures of sentences or
word combinations, but also on the choice of terms and meanings of words in different kinds of texts.
Grammatical competence is the domain of linguistic studies proper, while specific competence includes
interdisciplinary field together with the understanding of the particular context the language is used in