Russia : American Gossip : Authentic Language Material for Engineering Students  

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Slobodina, Tatiana

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 33 no. 1 (Jan. 1995), page 40.
Fulltext: American Gossip Authentic Language.pdf (358.18KB)

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The new teaching goal for ESL in the Russian North East is to train specialists to use English in face-to-face communication as well as to retrieve, process, and exchange professionally useful information from various sources. This is the main difference between the new and the traditional ESL teaching programs. In the new approach, the teaching goal is no longer merely knowledge about the language, but communication skills for everyday life and professional or commercial exchange. Teachers who try to reach this objective encounter problems with traditional textbooks. First, these texts present a mediocre variety of language-neutral, emotionless and absolutely inexpressive. Second, they fail to arouse student interest, because they are filled with "technical and scientific texts" that contain no new information to motivate them. Third, most of the texts are intended to train the students to master some abstract grammar points with no communication goal in mind.

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