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Milosevic, Danica – Research-publishing.net, 2017
In the digital era, university instructors working in English for Technical Sciences (ETS) have opportunities, some might say obligations, to use audio-visual resources to motivate students. Such materials also call on cognitive and constructivist mechanisms thought to improve uptake of the target language (Tarnopolsky, 2012). This chapter reports…
Descriptors: English for Science and Technology, Video Technology, Instructional Materials, Case Studies
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Tatzl, Dietmar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This article presents the design and evaluation of an intensive presentations course for aeronautical engineering students based on cyclic video recordings. The target group of this course in English for specific purposes (ESP) were undergraduate final-year students who needed to improve their presentation and foreign language skills to prepare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Aerospace Education, Engineering Education
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Tragant, Elsa; Marsol, Anna; Serrano, Raquel; Llanes, Àngels – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Comparative studies in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) often show CLIL students to be at something of an advantage over their non-CLIL peers. However, such studies are often difficult to interpret given problems of cross-group comparability (different schooling systems, different number of instructional hours, bias attributable to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, English (Second Language)