The Necessity of Teaching ESP Course to the Iranian Seminary Students of Hawza Ilmiyya

The present study was an attempt to investigate the necessity of teaching Iranian seminary students of Hawza Ilmiyya, ESP course. Today the world is interested in English. Thus with the emergence of English as lingua franca of technology, education and research in global society, the demand for studying ESP course is increasingly necessary. One of the usages of ELT is in Islamic seminary schools when they decide to go to other countries to preach Islamic thoughts. In this qualitative and quantitative study, the participants were selected based on the random sampling in Iran. Then the needs of teaching ESP courses to 100 seminary students were investigated by means of questionnaires. Analysis of the results showed that it was necessary to teach ESP to seminary students