Preparing ESP Learners for workplace placement  

Oleh:

Wood, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 63 no. 4 (Oct. 2009), page 323-331 .
Topik: ESP; ELT; workplace; cooperative education placements
Fulltext: 2009.4.323.full.pdf (97.48KB)

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Engineering students in North American universities often participate in cooperative education placements in workplaces as part of the requirements for their degrees and professional certi?cation. Students for whom English is an L2 often experience dif?culties in these placements due to the fact that while their academic language ability may be suf?cient to manage their coursework, they struggle to cope with the communication demands of a workplace context. This paper is a report of a course designed to assist these types of students in augmenting their workplace communication abilities. Students were required to analyse the ?uency features and formulaic language of native speaker (NS) models of speech in genres relevant to the professional workplace and to conduct ethnographic research and analysis with NSs in face-to-face communication on similar themes. Results of the course show that ?uency and pro?ciency in general were improved for the majority of the students.

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