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Yan Ding; Wei Dong; Liang Lu; Chunyi Lou – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to study the practice of multimedia technology in the teaching of scientific and technical English. With the rapid development and popularisation of computer technology and the deepening of educational concepts, multimedia-assisted English teaching has become one of the most important foreign language teaching modes at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
With digital literacies becoming an essential competency for teachers across the world, recent educational policies in India emphasize teachers' ability to use digital technologies for pedagogic purposes and the use of digital technologies by teachers as one of the evaluation criteria for ranking institutions. In the absence of any properly…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Wong, Wei-Wah Claudia – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2015
The demand for communication skills training for science research postgraduates (RPGs) has been increasing over the years. Many potential scientists and researchers in the industry are under enormous pressure to get published (Cargill, O'Connor & Li, 2012) and to attend conferences and seminars. In light of the aforementioned needs, all…
Descriptors: English for Science and Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Tatzl, Dietmar – TESOL Journal, 2013
This microethnographic case study discusses the effects of translating and revising documents for an English-medium master of science in engineering programme in terms of workload and value for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teacher development, integration, and enculturation. During the changeover from the diploma to bachelor-master…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Language Teachers, Ethnography, Case Studies
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Waters, Alan – ELT Journal, 1988
Describes the main features of a series of teaching methodology courses that are part of a masters' degree program at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology (Thailand) in English for Science and Technology. The basic course framework, course content, and syllabus are considered. (CB)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
Farrell, Paul – 1990
This report aims to show how an emphasis on vocabulary can contribute to courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), using the data from two lexical studies. The first study attempts to discover to what extent there may be a general language of science, or semi-technical vocabulary. This type of vocabulary would seem to offer a useful…
Descriptors: Electronics, English for Science and Technology, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
Chandrasegaran, Antonia – Guidelines, 1993
In business correspondence and technical communications, lack of coherence can cause serious misunderstanding. This paper examines how the problem of generating coherence is addressed in English for Business and Technology textbooks. It proposes a cognitive approach to skill building and presents a teaching procedure for doing so. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Coherence, English for Science and Technology