Speaker
Description
Teaching languages to students at higher education institutions (HEI) has undergone a major transformation. The contemporary world requires new skills from graduates from different HEI, so the process of change is almost constant. For years teachers have looked for the best solutions in didactics, not only taking into account the required outcomes and students’ expectations, but also international and national documents on education policy.
The presentation will focus on three main points.
In the first part, the presenter will provide some definitions of ESP as well as areas of interest, e.g. EAP, EPP, etc. An analysis of selected key areas in ESP course development will be given. Special attention will be paid to the role of needs analysis in the course design process. Moreover, some ideas on developing the curriculum of ESP courses will be discussed.
The second part will focus on the model of ESP courses in the Centre of Languages and Communication (CLC) at Poznan University of Technology. The presenter will describe the key steps in developing ESP courses for engineers in CLC. The final model of ESP courses with practical examples and teachers’ feedback will be shown. This part of the presentation will consider the importance of specialist discourse in teaching ESP.
Finally, the presenter will discuss some international examples from selected universities, which are members of CercleS, and will report on the present situation in ESP as well as future trends which should be considered.
Biographical note(s) of the author(s)
PUT Prof. dr Liliana Szczuka-Dorna, is a graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, English School. Doctor in Applied Linguistics. She successfully completed postgraduate studies: Master of Business Administration, Methodology of English Language Teaching, and Public Relations. She is a sworn-in translator at the Ministry of Justice.
She conducts courses in English to Polish and international students at Poznan University of Technology: English for Academics, English for Special Purposes, Introduction to Management, Intercultural Communication.
She has participated in many national and international projects: e.g. Tempus, Phare, Leonardo da Vinci: Magic, Badge.
Professional interests: English Medium Instruction, specialized language teaching, interpersonal and intercultural communication, European educational programmes. She has been coordinator of national and international projects.
She is the Director of Center of Languages and Communication at PUT. A member of different organizations including :
CercleS (European Confederation of Language Centers in Higher Education) –president 2016-2019 ,
SERMO (Polish Association of Academic Foreign Languages Centers)-president 2006-2014,
Polish Neo-philology Society, Poznan Branch and
ICLHE-Integrating Content & Language in Higher Education.
Affiliation of the author(s)
Poznan University of Technology
