EXTEND PROJECT: PILOTING THE COURSE "FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR ENGINEERING. ACADEMIC WRITING" AT NOSOV MAGNITOGORSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
EXTEND PROJECT: PILOTING THE COURSE "FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR ENGINEERING. ACADEMIC WRITING" AT NOSOV MAGNITOGORSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Summary/Abstract: Within the framework of EXTEND project Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building in Higher Education Project EXTEND 586060-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP "Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan" it is planned to elaborate innovative courses to enhance the quality of engineering education in Russia and Tajikistan. Inasmuch as foreign languages are included in transversal competences for engineering education, special attention was given to the elaboration of the "Foreign Languages for Engineering. Academic Writing" course. A foreign language is considered as a means of professional competence forming and is included in the main competences of engineers of XXI century. The course consists of five modules having the similar structure: "Reading and Speaking", "Writing", "Listening", "Translation Basics", Academic Writing", "Assessment" and "Bank of Prompts". The content of the modules is universal for any branch of engineering, as it touches upon such topics as affiliation and self-presentation, safety at working place, dimensions, working with drawings, career strategy, team building, engineering branches, etc. Special attention is given to academic writing, as it is obligatory for contemporary PhD students and university teachers to publish their scientific papers and disseminate the results of their researches at the international level. Learners are taught to write their research papers according to the IMRaD model. Moreover, academic writing is correlated with a listening part, supplementing it with practical tips. "Bank of Prompts" is aimed at equipping learners with linguistic cultural background information, which is necessary for communication and translation. The paper describes the piloting experiment, thus complex methodology is applied.

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