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- Title
PREPARATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE GRADUATES TO TEACH ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT THE ACADEMIC LEVEL.
- Authors
LINKIEWICZ, PATRYCJA
- Abstract
Introduction: In contemporary educational, social and professional realities the knowledge of general English is insufficient for effective communication. Thus, foreign language teachers have to obtain a great deal of competences allowing them for teaching languages, including the competence to teach language for specific purposes. Research Aim: The objective of the article consists in analysing the degree to which foreign language teachers are prepared to teach English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in educational institutions at the academic level. Method: The study used the method of the analysis of documents. Results: The graduates of philology are not sufficiently prepared to teach ESP, while graduates of applied linguistics are to a greater degree prepared to undertake such tasks. The main problem with teaching ESP concerns however, lack of the appropriate didactic materials. Thus, foreign language teachers are left with no other choice than to create their own materials, apply creative teaching methods, or to search for the materials loosely connected with a given discipline. Conclusions: The practical solutions to the problem depicted in the article are suggested, and they are as follows: incorporation of "specialist foreign language methodology" into academic curricula, organisation of courses from a specific field for foreign language teachers, researching the scale of the problem, mutual exchange of experience and materials between the teachers, improvement of the hitherto created coursebooks and materials with account taken of the communicative approach towards language learning, creation of specialist coursebooks.
- Subjects
POLAND; LANGUAGE teachers; TEACHERS; ENGLISH language education; TEACHER certification
- Publication
Lubelski Rocznik Pedagogiczny, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 3, p71
- ISSN
0137-6136
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17951/lrp.2023.42.3.71-87