How to Teach English for Engineers - UsingEnglish.com. It is rather difficult to decide what English to teach to engineers.
First of all, “engineer” has two rather distinct meanings, one of which is close to “technician” or “mechanic” (e.g. a photocopier repair engineer) and another which is closer to “designer”. The needs of these two groups are likely to be different, but there are also people whose jobs and training fall somewhere in the middle. Another complication is that English for Engineers courses are also often for people still in full- time education, meaning no one has any idea which kind of job those people might end up in. Then there are the numerous different kinds of engineer (marine engineer, architectural engineer, genetic engineer, etc) with wildly different fields of work and very specialist vocabulary… - Abbreviations - Adjectives, e.g. positive ones like “reliable” and negative ones like “rusty” - Consequences/ Cause and effect - Countable and uncountable nouns.
Pronunciation Dictionaries. Conversation. Motivating speaking activities for lower levels. Planning time has been shown to increase production in speaking tasks. Lower level learners often find it especially difficult to speak spontaneously, so these activities incorporate 'thinking time' during which learners can prepare for speaking by planning what they are going to say, and asking the teacher or using a dictionary to look up missing vocabulary. The following activities are relatively short, with minimal materials preparation time for the teacher. They are designed for use as a warmer or a filler in the middle or at the end of a class. 1. Definitions lists This activity is good for activating existing vocabulary or revising vocabulary studied in previous lessons.
Procedure Choose a vocabulary topic (this can be vocabulary you have recently studied or a topic you want to introduce). Phonology. English Podcasts. Idioms-Expressions.
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(a lesson that fills in some of the details that we omit here due to the fact that the focus of this lesson was further in the past). There is still a great deal of debate about Indo-European, most importantly about the location of the homeland. To read more about this debate, there are classic books by Mallory and Renfrew, as well more recent works by Anthony. Then, read these articles by Bouckaert et al. At the same site, watch this movie that shows one hypothesis about how Indo-European languages expanded. To learn more about the distribution of languages across the world, see LL-map or The Ethnologue.
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Scientists have long assumed that the “bilingualism advantage” — the enhanced ability to filter out important information from unimportant material — stems from how bilingual people process language. The new study confirms that assumption and goes on to suggest that bilingual people are more efficient at higher-level brain functions such as ignoring irrelevant information, said Ellen Bialystok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in the research. Working harder In the study, published last week in the journal Brain and Language, brain scans showed that people who spoke only one language had to work harder to focus on a single word.
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Language Department, Technical University of Cartagena. Campus Paseo Alfonso XIII, s/n, 30203 Cartagena, Spain. Tf: 34 968 325613; Fax: 34 968 325655 E-mail: natalia.carbajosa@rec.upct.es Born in 1971, Spanish nationality. A cognitive experience in ESP: teaching vocabulary to Telecommunications Engineering students. Dr. Tecnical University of Cartagena, Spain Language Department Abstract Cognitive science applied to language teaching spreads the pragmatic notion of meaning in context by adding to the external, contextual factors, the importance of mental associations based on background knowledge or neurological relations (phonemic, semantic, etc). Technical vocabulary possesses two main characteristics: a unanimous definition and location within a theory (42). Semi-technical vocabulary is formed by lexical units from common language which have acquired one or several new meanings within a knowledge field (43). 1. 2.
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