Teaching Professional Interviews with Online Resources – a Key Path to Success
Teaching Professional Interviews with Online Resources – a Key Path to Success

Summary/Abstract: Teaching foreign languages with online resources is a great source of creativity and innovation. That is why, the Internet use in teaching has become a motivating factor among students. Teaching language competences - listening, reading, writing and speaking – is enriched with the help of online resources used as valuable input for language lessons. The use of internet resources to teach English for Professional Communication offers students the possibility of becoming exposed to realia, that is, to valuable real situations and contexts of interaction. It is one thing to teach students tips about effective interviews, which can be passive and boring to a certain point, and another thing to show them good and bad examples of these. In this way, students become motivated and involved in a dynamic process of thoughtful decisions and understanding. This article shows the importance of teaching English for Professional Communication with online resources as a motivating factor which promotes understanding and learning by discovery. In the main body of this article we are providing a lesson scenario based on internet resources and the motivation for our choices. The lesson covers various aspects of the job interview context intended to make students aware of their own performance in a similar situation. As regards the content of a job interview, students will experience typical questions and answers comparing their theoretical knowledge of how an interview should be with real life performances that are very often far from the ideal. In this way, students can evaluate the interviewees and learn from their good and bad “moves”. As far as the framework of a job interview is concerned, students are also exposed to non verbal communication, rules of behavior, register, dress code, aspects which are highly influential in determining the outcome of a job interview. Therefore, such an e-lesson may be considered a useful and pleasant experience that prepares students for the complexity of a real life job interview situation.

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