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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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Hartwell, Laura M.; Jacques, Marie-Paule – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Both reading and writing abstracts require specific language skills and conceptual capacities, which may challenge advanced learners. This paper draws explicitly upon the "Emergence" and "Scientext" research projects which focused on the lexis of scientific texts in French and English. The teaching objective of the project…
Descriptors: Documentation, French, Computational Linguistics, Language Skills
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Sisti, Flora – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This presentation examines the application of Web 2.0 to an online scientific language course. The online Computer Science English Course (CSEC), funded by a national PRIN project and targeted to students enrolled in the undergraduate course in Applied Computer Science (ACS) at the University of Urbino-Italy, aims to promote the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Web 2.0 Technologies, Scientific Literacy