IMPLEMENTATION OF TEAM TEACHING IN AN ESP PROGRAM AND THE INVESTIGATION OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS ON STUDENTS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ESP VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

This paper presents an experiment concerning the contribution of team teaching to the better understanding of English as a specific purpose (ESP) terminologies. Accordingly, 40 learners majoring in computer science were selected as the participants of this study. Randomly, they were divided into two experimental and control groups. While the instructional material was the same for both groups, control group was taught through team teaching. At the end of the experiment, the findings were compared through t-test. Results after the analysis of the data indicated that who were taught through team teaching gained more ESP vocabulary than those who were taught conventionally.