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Raising Stakeholder's Awareness of the Need for Soft Skills in the Tertiary Engineering Education Curriculum
Raising Stakeholder's Awareness of the Need for Soft Skills in the Tertiary Engineering Education Curriculum

Author(s): Dana Sorana Urs , Yolanda Mirela Catelly
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: soft skills; engineering tertiary education; foreign language teaching; CLIL; personal development; curricular change

Summary/Abstract: Soft skills have become a priority of educational programmes all over the world. In Romania, it is only recently that they have started to be given attention to. In technical universities where the educational methods are still based on traditional principles, focused mainly on the teaching of hard/technical skills, the attempts are still timid. It is the purpose of this article, therefore, to advocate a fully systematic approach of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) type to soft skills teaching, based on the real needs of the students, that should be included in the curriculum as specially designed modules, workshops, lectures etc.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-56
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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