The use of an interdisciplinary approach to teach English
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Date
2021
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PUCE - Esmeraldas
Abstract
Tesis previa obtención del título de Magister en Pedagogía del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
The current research has been carried out to support students’ nursing career at Pontifical Catholic University Esmeraldas Campus (PUCESE) in 2019, to guide them to learn and master English nursing terminologies as well as to reach the communicative competences. In addition, English for Specific Purposes’ characteristic is to address professors to use essential teaching strategies to achieve greatest educative results. Likewise, interdisciplinarity provides meaningful learning that allows learners to advance in their cognitive process. The deductive method was used in this investigation and the quantitative technique was chosen to diagnose the relevant conclusions such as the observation and the surveys applied to the teachers and students of A1.2 level. To get the objectives, an observation technique was applied, the results revealed that professors of English do not develop their classes for specific purposes, they apply some methodological strategies to teach English in general content. Besides, the surveys applied reported that fewer students consider that English for Specific Purposes does not support their learning process in nursing career while English professors do not have experience working on specific purposes. Thus, this investigation is applicable because it contributes to the improvement of English learning for specific purposes.
The current research has been carried out to support students’ nursing career at Pontifical Catholic University Esmeraldas Campus (PUCESE) in 2019, to guide them to learn and master English nursing terminologies as well as to reach the communicative competences. In addition, English for Specific Purposes’ characteristic is to address professors to use essential teaching strategies to achieve greatest educative results. Likewise, interdisciplinarity provides meaningful learning that allows learners to advance in their cognitive process. The deductive method was used in this investigation and the quantitative technique was chosen to diagnose the relevant conclusions such as the observation and the surveys applied to the teachers and students of A1.2 level. To get the objectives, an observation technique was applied, the results revealed that professors of English do not develop their classes for specific purposes, they apply some methodological strategies to teach English in general content. Besides, the surveys applied reported that fewer students consider that English for Specific Purposes does not support their learning process in nursing career while English professors do not have experience working on specific purposes. Thus, this investigation is applicable because it contributes to the improvement of English learning for specific purposes.
Description
Tesis previa obtención del título de Magister en Pedagogía del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
Keywords
English for specific purposes, Interdisciplinary approach, Communicative competences, Meaningful learning