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- Title
RECENT AND RELEVANT: LANGUAGE.
- Authors
Southard, Sherry; Bates, Christine
- Abstract
The article presents abstracts on language. This paper describes a five-year research project aimed at developing a corpus-based language support tool able to respond to the English writing needs of Japanese software engineers who do not speak English natively. A total of 539 sample English abstracts from four well-known technical journals and tagged them with linguistic and rhetorical information. Teachers who make themselves more aware of intercultural theory and then use that knowledge with their students can improve their classroom dynamic. Four research articles and two tutorials present investigations of learner needs, description of project activities that generated training courses and materials as well as computer software for educational, research or workplace purposes. A survey of 1,000 undergraduate engineering students clearly revealed students' desire for two types of training in oral communication, training in presentation skills and in the skills or professional conversation. The article briefly describes the survey's design and results and identifies the lack of conversational training for nonnative English speakers as a previously unnoticed weakness in the curriculum.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; ENGLISH language; WRITTEN communication; LANGUAGE &; culture; CLASSROOM environment; ENGINEERING students; ORAL communication; SURVEYS
- Publication
Technical Communication, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 2, p324
- ISSN
0049-3155
- Publication type
Article