Case Meetings for Teaching English for Specific Academic Purposes in a Tertiary Aeronautical Engineering Programme

Autor/in	Tatzl, Dietmar
Titel	Case Meetings for Teaching English for Specific Academic Purposes in a Tertiary Aeronautical Engineering Programme
Quelle	In: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 9 (2015) 3, S.191-217 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-1229
DOI	10.1080/17501229.2014.904871
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; English for Academic Purposes; Case Method (Teaching Technique); Meetings; Internship Programs; Aerospace Education; Questionnaires; Observation; Transfer of Training; Communication Skills; Student Centered Learning; Assignments; Mixed Methods Research; Graduate Students; Engineering Education; Austria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Case method; Fallmethode; Meeting; Tagung; Berufspraktische Ausbildung; Fragebogen; Beobachtung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Kommunikationsstil; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ingenieurausbildung; Österreich
Abstract	This article presents an innovative adaptation of the case method to teaching English for specific academic purposes. Widespread in its traditional form in various content disciplines, the case method bears the potential for truly student-centred language instruction. The current application transforms learners from case analysts to case authors and directors, thus strengthening their personal proactive engagement with authentic industry experiences. In the academic years of 2012 and 2013, two student year groups (N = 45) delivered a total of 23 case meetings based on or remotely derived from real-life meetings they were faced with during their industrial internships in aeronautics. The author evaluated the case teaching scenarios through a questionnaire, students' case study records (CSRs) and in-class observations of the case meetings. In the questionnaire survey, students perceived a noticeable impact on their spoken interaction skills from the case meetings and subject-specific vocabulary learning from the preparation of the written CSRs. Students were able to transfer learning gains from their participation in case study meetings to their personal development of meeting skills and to improve their subject-specific communication skills. Authenticity and the workload involved in preparing the meetings were identified as controversial elements in this application of the case study method. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01