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Autentyczność na zajęciach zwiększających kompetencje w użyciu specjalistycznego języka angielskiego
Authenticity in Developing English for Specific Purposes

Author(s): Barbara Kołodziejczak, Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska, Magdalena Roszak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Higher Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: ESP; e-learning; authenticity; constructivism; constructionism

Summary/Abstract: Incorporating online resources and activities into a university course curriculum involves restructuring the whole teaching programme to achieve a synergistic effect. The development of web technologies has enabled educators to move from instructivism towards constructivism and constructionism, i.e., towards interactive, collaborative, and student-centred learning in an authentic context structured around the ideas of text authenticity, competence authenticity, learner authenticity, and classroom authenticity. This viewpoint is supported by the research into ESP skills that has been conducted at Poznan University of Medical Sciences and Gdańsk University of Technology. This phase has aimed to investigate correlations between authenticity and an increase in particular language skills.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 147-163
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish