IT&C IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE
IT&C IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: The field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is relatively new. While Legalese and English for Business become early on clearly distinctive parts of English for Specific Purposes due to the quite numerous implied professional categories using it, Technical and Medical English follow right after. Once English turned into the new lingua franca for diplomacy, English for Political Science distinguishes itself as an obvious branch of study for non-native learners of English with vested interests in the domains of political science, international relations, sociology, psychology, and not only. In Romania, teaching English for Political Science could be considered an innovation, since it was recently developed. Using IT&C while implementing a whole new set of vocabulary is both challenging and beneficial for professionals in the field. New generations of students and young practitioners are tuned to new technology and ground-breaking devices, expecting nevertheless to use gadgets and virtual tools while accessing new information and knowledge in the process of learning. It is only natural to adapt to such a wonderful and revolutionary century and dare to be creative, innovative, and constantly renew your teaching methods to boost the learning environment. Blending IT&C in the process of acquiring a language facilitates modern teaching techniques, "flips" the classroom and builds interest in your audience. The present paper describes a way in which blended learning, flipped classroom and Controlled Linguistic Immersion increase overall class proficiency, boost performance and trigger long term specialized language acquisition processes. We attempt to pull together the English for Political Science and the new technology in an accessible and friendly way.

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