了解我国专门用途英语（ESP）教师的身份认同对于公共英语从通用英语向专门用途英语范式转移非常关键。我们对40多所高校109位ESP教师的问卷和访谈调查发现，ESP教师的身份认同度不高，他们教学主要还是停留在通用学术英语，没有花全力去从事与专业相关的ESP教学与研究。主要原因是外语界把ＥＳＰ 看成专业内容教学和ESP从教育部学科设置目录中消失，这使得ESP教师不敢放弃原有的英美语言文学或翻译研究。因此，尽快恢复ESP学科地位，改变以外国语言文学为核心内容的学科评估体系将成为吸引更多愿意从事ESP教学的教师的关键。

To have a good understanding of ESP (English for Specific Purposes)teachers’perception of their new identity is critical to the paradigm shift from teaching general English to ESP. This study draws on the data from a questionnaire and interviews, a survey conducted among 109 ESP teachers from more than 40 tertiary institutes. The result shows that the majority of them fail to recognize their new identity nor to devote themselves to teaching discipline-specific ESP. It also shows that the misunderstanding of ESP as content instruction and the loss of ESP as an independent discipline from the MOE discipline lists renders many of them unwilling to replace their original research interest in literature, linguistics and translation with new one in ESP. It is suggested that to draw more English language teachers to embrace the new enterprise ,it is important to restore ESP to its disciplinary status and reform the literature / linguisticoriented assessment of the foreign language discipline