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Engineering students’ views on ESP courses as a pathway for the development of graduates’ international mindsets
| العنوان: | Engineering students’ views on ESP courses as a pathway for the development of graduates’ international mindsets |
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| المؤلفون: | Arnó Macià, Elisabet, Aguilar Pérez, Marta |
| المساهمون: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria i Història de l'Arquitectura i Tècniques de Comunicació |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Nature |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Aprenentatge de llengües, Language and languages--Study and teaching, English for specific purposes, Students’ needs, Students’ beliefs, Internationalization, Integrated internationalization, Llengües -- Ensenyament, Anglès tècnic |
| الوصف: | The growing internationalization of study and work settings has led to increased university internationalization, making it necessary to explore the language and communication skills that higher education students need, and more importantly, how their confidence can be boosted to effectively participate in international academic and professional communication. As universities tend to favor EMI (English-Medium Instruction) as a way of developing students’ disciplinary communication skills and rarely incorporate ESP (English for Specific Purposes) as part of their policies, a question arises about the role of ESP courses and their potential for developing intercultural communication and internationalization skills. This chapter inquires into whether and how ESP courses can be integrated into university internationalization policies with the aim to help students towards the development of disciplinary English. In order to find out what skills students perceive as necessary for international academic and professional communication, this study investigates how these courses are implemented in a technical university, from the perspective of students’ views. Data come from a survey on ESP students’ self-reported preparation (and level of confidence), their EMI/international experience and their use of English for academic and professional purposes. Complementarily, this study also examines the position of ESP in the curriculum and in broader institutional language and internationalization policies. From the results obtained, a proposal is made for aligning ESP with broader institutional internationalization strategies, so that ESP courses can contribute to developing transferable skills that impact on graduates’ international employability, which makes ESP even more relevant in current internationalized scenarios. ; Postprint (author's final draft) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| وصف الملف: | 22 p.; application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-3-030-96094-0 3-030-96094-3 |
| Relation: | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96095-7; Arno, E.; Aguilar Perez, M. Engineering students' views on ESP courses as a pathway for the development of graduates' international mindsets. A: "Language use, education, and professional contexts". Springer Nature, 2022, p. 143-164.; http://hdl.handle.net/2117/366533 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-96095-7_9 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/366533 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96095-7_9 |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ ; Open Access |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.CA129BA0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9783030960940 3030960943 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-96095-7_9 |