Paper Info
Title
Development of a graduate school EAP course for engineers
Abstract
This paper discusses the creation process of an English for Academic Purposes Course that targets graduate school (masters' and PhD program) English language learners majoring in engineering at a private university in Japan. The course focuses mainly on the academic paper writing process, presenting and question-and-answer skills, as well as improving general communication proficiency. The authors commence by outlining the rationale for creating an English for Academic Purposes course. Subsequently, the different stages the course went through from a voluntary non-credited workshop to a credited stand-alone course, the goals of the course, the target group, course material creation with an online test component, and methods of quality control are described. Challenges encountered during development together with solutions and adjustments to cater to the course participant needs and to meet the requests of the administration are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IPCC.2015.7235781
2015 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Administration requests and participant needs,course creation and implementation,English for Academic Purposes,quality control
English language,Engineering,Multimedia,English for academic purposes,Writing process
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2158-091X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruth Vanbaelen101.35
Jonathan Harrison222.37