The ESP Student as an Active and Autonomous Participant in the Language Learning Process (Class Experiment).

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Authors

SCHORMOVÁ Zdeňka

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Education and Languages in Europe, Bildung und Sprachen in Europa
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Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords communicative competence; simulation; experiment; English for Specific Purposes; Medical English
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Description This paper looks at teaching and learning method which helps students become active and autonomous participants in their own learning process and therefore helps to develop their communicative competence in real-life situations which is essential for students in the field of English for specific purposes. The research deals with Medical English communicative competence development at tertiary level. First it introduces the quantitative research method used – experiment in vivo and explains how simulation method was used in teaching and learning process of experimental group. It describes experiment carried out in detail. Than it looks at drawbacks challenged during the course of experiment and finally introduces results in communicative competence development comparing experimental and control groups of ESP students.
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