Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Special Purposes

A presentation of a model technique for teaching specialized language at an advanced level to future businessmen. The language learning task and the acquisition of information in a specialized field of interest are integrated. Pedagogical materials based on a sound movie-film not originally intended...

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Published in:	The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.) Colo.), 1973-11, Vol.57 (7), p.343-348
Main Authors:	Beardsmore, H. Baetens, Lee, Eric J.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Advanced students business language College instruction EFL Idioms Language Language teachers Linguistics Nonnative languages Paraphrase Second language learning teaching approaches teaching of language Université Libre de Bruxelles World language instruction
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Summary:	A presentation of a model technique for teaching specialized language at an advanced level to future businessmen. The language learning task and the acquisition of information in a specialized field of interest are integrated. Pedagogical materials based on a sound movie-film not originally intended for language teaching are adapted to suit the group level of ability. The technique, based on paraphrase at the sentence level, leads to a controlled "discovery" of the film dialogue, and is mechanical, recurrent, and incremental. It does not, however, preclude the creative use of language. The technique allows for the presentation of a measurable amount of language to be learned, while setting minimum and maximum goals for individual students to select according to their ability. AA
ISSN:	0026-7902 1540-4781 1540-4781