Constructionist Experiential Learner-Enhanced Teaching in English for Academic Purposes

ISBN-13: 9783631663080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 268 str.

Dietmar Tatzl

Opis

This book offers a macrostrategy for teaching English as a foreign language to students in tertiary degree programmes. This teaching strategy has been developed from various methodological currents in higher education and language didactics. The volume provides inspiration, ideas and practical examples for ESP and EAP professionals anywhere in the world and hopes to motivate learners across disciplines. It takes subject-specific requirements into consideration and is a methodology handbook open to the diversity of EAP teaching contexts. It may serve as a textbook in applied linguistics, English studies and teacher education.

Spis treści

Contents: English for academic purposes - English for specific purposes - English as a foreign language - Teaching strategy - Advanced learners - Constructionism - Experiential learning - Learner-enhanced teaching - Communicative and task-based teaching - Project-based learning - Technical-scientific writing - Methodology in higher education.

O autorze

Dietmar Tatzl is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Aviation at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He teaches English language to aeronautical engineering students. His research interests include English for science and technology, engineering education and technical communication.