INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAMMS – A POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR TEACHING ESP TO TECHNICAL STUDENTS
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAMMS – A POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR TEACHING ESP TO TECHNICAL STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: Science and technology no longer communicate solely through the universal language of mathematics, like they did in the past, because science and technology no longer belong to the intellectual elite, they have become an integrated part of our everyday life. This new context forces engineers to become not only good professionals, but good communicators as well. The teaching method used to teach English to technical university students proves to be very efficient in building and consolidating a communicational basis, because it develops technical and specific vocabulary by developing skills that enable the students to work with a technical text and skills that enable the students to ellaborate similar texts. However, it is seriously challenged when in this educational process we add the acquisition of communicational competences and not just knowledge and skills. For the acquisition of communicational competences we need to complete this traditional method with another one that will enable students to learn in an environment that mimics the professional environment. This paper is about the introduction of a teaching method that will develop communicational competences in technical university students.

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