De la programa analitica la comunicare
FROM SYLLABUS TO COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: The research regarding the teaching of English for Science and Technology emphasizes mainly two objectives, the formative and the communicative ones. According to the circumstances, one of the above mentioned objectives is paid more attention; however, what is common to them is the concept that learning a foreign language is synonymous to acquiring the competence to communicate later on with native speakers, though at the moment of learning, the speaker does not possess accurate linguistic needs. In didactics, the two objectives represent a mutual support. The programmes of Technical English are set upon acquiring knowledge to communicate precisely, according to social and professional needs and contexts. This paper makes an attempt to describe the way in which the competence and performance objectives included in various kinds of syllabi are the targets whose achievement leads to correct communication; it also focuses upon the type of organisation of the activity of foreign language teaching in the form of a seminar. The description of the formative/informative objective to which objectives linked to communication are subjected distinguishes the EST seminar from other types of activities in which communication is achieved.

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