Idea Sharing: Professionalizing ESP Teaching to University Students through Modeling Professional Interaction in ESP Classrooms

Autor/in	Tarnopolsky, Oleg
Titel	Idea Sharing: Professionalizing ESP Teaching to University Students through Modeling Professional Interaction in ESP Classrooms
Quelle	In: PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 50 (2015), S.155-172 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0125-2488
Schlagwörter	English for Special Purposes; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Oral Language; College Students; Psychology; Constructivism (Learning); Teaching Methods; Peer Relationship; Information Sources; Research Papers (Students); Business Administration Education; Economics Education; Experiential Learning; Learning Activities; Learning Processes; Brainstorming; Case Studies; Simulation; Assignments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Collegestudent; Psychologie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Peer-Beziehungen; Information source; Informationsquelle; Wirtschaftskunde; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Lernaktivität; Learning process; Lernprozess; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung
Abstract	The article discusses the implementation of the "constructivist approach" in ESP teaching to university students. This approach creates opportunities for students to "construct" their own target language communication skills meant for use in their professional intercourse. The way of achieving such an effect can be seen in professionalizing ESP teaching and learning through modeling professional interaction in ESP classrooms. The learning activities that are suggested for implementing such modeled professional interaction are interactive ones in which students: 1) orally interact in English with each other on professional issues; 2) use outside sources of professional information in English and prepare different professionally-oriented written papers in English on the basis of the data obtained during their interaction with these professional information sources; and 3) do project work in English summarizing everything that they have learned both professionally and from the point of view of ESP acquisition. The article is illustrated with examples from ESP teaching to university students of psychology, as well as business and economics. The analyzed learning activities are interpreted as representing "experiential learning", which is considered to be the principal practical implementation of the constructivist approach in the ESP teaching/learning process. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Chulalongkorn University Language Institute. Prem Purachatra Building, Chulalongkom University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Tel: +66-2-218-6092; Fax: +66-2-218-6104; e-mail: pasaa.editor@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/Publicationsonline/home_p1.php
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01