Course Syllabus

Course Description

This course is a well-balanced and harmonized combination of ELT methodology with real functional professional setting. Its aim is to improve students’ professional communication skills and content understanding in genres of engineering and architecture. The course is comprehensive in its scope of topics and themes by offering opportunities of high- priority language useful to any branch of engineering (mechanical, electrical, civil, computing, environmental) and to architecture by focusing on tasks and skills related to drawings, description of technical problems as well the dimensions and precision. It is designed with an emphasis on all four dimensions of ESP learning: authentic activities illustrating daily engineering situations, original listening to professionals at work, speaking and writing tasks affiliated to contemporary problems and sensitive issues of engineering and architecture by making the course practical, and motivating.

Course Objectives

The course is designed for intermediate to advanced level students who need to use English of computing for academic study and afterwards, for work purposes. It will equip students with tailored jargon to describe devices and gadgets. English for Communication technology offers social, linguistic and educational reasons for taking the course. the main linguistic aim of this ICT English course is to provide peculiar vocabulary, syntax and discourse functions beneficial for developing linguistic competence for computer , electronic and software engineering students.

Key Concepts

1. This EAP class is based on needs assessment analysis.
2. It is designed to foster learner's autonomy in English for academic purposes.
3. It is based on a competence-oriented syllabus and learner-centered classroom.
4. It is driven by the principle of learners being critical thinkers to self-reflect on abundant academic literature in the domain.
5. It is guided by the provision of students with the contemporary conventions of academic and writing for future advanced research.
6. To develop comprehension strategies and critical thinking.
7. To integrate reading and writing skills in scholarly contexts.
8. To improve reading comprehension and writing accuracy.
9. To develop clear, accurate, and coherent written communication.
10. To produce well-reasoned written work based on textual analysis.

Learning Outcomes

1. At the End of the Academic course students will be able to develop four English skills about technology
2. The students will be able to conduct individually and in teams, research on a phenomenon.
3. They will apply learned writing skills in professional, academic, and digital contexts.
4. The students will be able to gather data, build up convincing arguments and express them effectively both in written and verbal forms
5. They will be able to enrich and enhance their vocabulary and linguistic patterns on professional English for Informatics.
6. The students will be able to present case studies in fluent computer engineering English on a theme of their studies.
7. They will be able to identify main ideas, supporting details, and organizational patterns in academic and general texts.
8. The students will be able to demonstrate the ability to critically analyze the structure and content of written materials.
9. They will be able to critically assess texts, edit and revise writing
10. The students will be able to produce coherent, original written works for various contexts

Recommended Textbooks

Professional English in Use ICT, Cambridge University Press 2022. Communicative English for Engineers and Professionals, Nitin Bhatnagar and Mamta Bhatnagar, Pearson/Longman (2024). Internet based lectures from Purdue University.