Hernández Grande, AmeliaVillegas Flores, Nelly2021-12-132021-12-132018-07https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12371/15533“Spanish language is the third most spoken language in the world. Latin American, North America and Spain compose 500 millions of people who speak this language. In recent times the Spanish language has raised importance of use not only in social traits but also in disciplines such as economics, finance and technology. For this reason, the necessity of students to learn the Spanish language to achieve their goals has become essential; in other words learning Spanish for specific purposes. To have a clear idea of the nature of this approach let us to consider the well known approach of English for Specific Purposes because there is a whole range of work about English but not for Spanish. According to Mackay and Mountford (1978) “ESP is generally used to refer to the teaching for a clearly utilitarian purpose” (p. 2), that is, each individual has a specific reason to learn any language. Learning a second language in general terms does not necessary assure the proficiency of the language in the target professional area. Among other differences in learning a language with general purposes called EGP, meaning English with General Purposes, and in terms of ESP, meaning English with Specific Purposes both differ in the ‘purpose of learning”.pdfspaHUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTAInglés--Estudio y enseñanzaLenguaje y lenguas--Estudio y enseñanzaAdquisición de segunda lenguaTesinaTeoría del aprendizaje cognitivoopenAccess