LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees

In this paper we show the empiric research we carried out in the academic year 2013-14. We intend to emphasize the role of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and more concretely English for Occupational Purposes in the professional and academic field. From our experience in the classroom, our work...

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Main Authors: Isabel Herrando Rodrigo, José María Yebra-Pertusa
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2014-11-01
Series:Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
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Online Access:https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/4
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spelling doaj-1be7f8fc1c374c80b804d43f99d77c602020-11-25T03:52:32ZdeuUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaRevista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos1133-11272340-85612014-11-0120LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical DegreesIsabel Herrando Rodrigo0José María Yebra-Pertusa1Centro Universitario de la Defensa de ZaragozaCentro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza In this paper we show the empiric research we carried out in the academic year 2013-14. We intend to emphasize the role of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and more concretely English for Occupational Purposes in the professional and academic field. From our experience in the classroom, our working hypothesis was to determine to what extent can a project like this help diagnose the main problems students meet when they do an academic presentation. This piece of research was conducted with students who were in their last course of Management Engineering (designed for defence) and who are expected to defend their End Degree Project in English. These students are also expected to develop their professional career in multilingual scenarios using English as a vehicle of communication (getting a B2 level from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The methodology we used was twofold. On the one hand, we gave them some clues to prepare fully academic presentations. Afterwards, they had to defend their presentation in front of a board and answer their questions. In this phase we took notes, filled a template and gave them feedback to improve their skills. On the other hand, students had to fill surveys about the experience and possible formulas of improvement. The analysis of the surveys gave us valuable feedback to implement in our future teaching of the skill. In conclusion, any other teacher in his or her ESP classroom could replicate this experience, which we have found tremendously illuminating since these results revealed our syllabus weaknesses. Second, this experience helped our students to be communicatively successful in their technical tasks. In addition, this type of empirical piece of research not only contributes to raise awareness around the need of keeping working with and researching about ESP but also contributes to previous research in Applied Linguistics. DOI: 10.1400/229697 https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/4English for Specific Purposesempiric researchprofessional skills
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LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
English for Specific Purposes
empiric research
professional skills
author_facet Isabel Herrando Rodrigo
José María Yebra-Pertusa
author_sort Isabel Herrando Rodrigo
title LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
title_short LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
title_full LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
title_fullStr LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
title_full_unstemmed LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos / LSP and the Need to Work on Professional Skills in Technical Degrees
title_sort lfe y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en grados técnicos / lsp and the need to work on professional skills in technical degrees
publisher Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
series Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
issn 1133-1127
2340-8561
publishDate 2014-11-01
description In this paper we show the empiric research we carried out in the academic year 2013-14. We intend to emphasize the role of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and more concretely English for Occupational Purposes in the professional and academic field. From our experience in the classroom, our working hypothesis was to determine to what extent can a project like this help diagnose the main problems students meet when they do an academic presentation. This piece of research was conducted with students who were in their last course of Management Engineering (designed for defence) and who are expected to defend their End Degree Project in English. These students are also expected to develop their professional career in multilingual scenarios using English as a vehicle of communication (getting a B2 level from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The methodology we used was twofold. On the one hand, we gave them some clues to prepare fully academic presentations. Afterwards, they had to defend their presentation in front of a board and answer their questions. In this phase we took notes, filled a template and gave them feedback to improve their skills. On the other hand, students had to fill surveys about the experience and possible formulas of improvement. The analysis of the surveys gave us valuable feedback to implement in our future teaching of the skill. In conclusion, any other teacher in his or her ESP classroom could replicate this experience, which we have found tremendously illuminating since these results revealed our syllabus weaknesses. Second, this experience helped our students to be communicatively successful in their technical tasks. In addition, this type of empirical piece of research not only contributes to raise awareness around the need of keeping working with and researching about ESP but also contributes to previous research in Applied Linguistics. DOI: 10.1400/229697
topic English for Specific Purposes
empiric research
professional skills
url https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/4
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