USING IT TO INTRODUCE IT – WITH PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH ON THE HIDDEN AGENDA
USING IT TO INTRODUCE IT – WITH PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH ON THE HIDDEN AGENDA

Summary/Abstract: Over the last decade, IT has been used in various ways and with different rationales in the teaching of many disciplines in tertiary education. Among them, the teaching of foreign languages has continuously been making use of these new and more and more complex technical means of pedagogic support, in spite of a certain degree of reluctance that might have characterized the teachers’ attitude at the beginning. This is particularly more so if the trainees are, as the case is in the educational context taken into consideration in this study, engineering students – more precisely Computer Science bachelor level in a faculty having English as the medium of instruction. Therefore, the main aim of the paper is to draw the attention of the foreign language teaching community on the need to increase the students’ awareness of the usefulness and versatility of IT for language teaching/learning and for learning in general. In the particular case presented in the study, namely a three-stage project entitled “I like IT” - inspired from a well-known TV programme in Romania - one interesting aspect is the fact that it is actually a combined IT focused activity. Thus, on the one hand, the topic of the project is making IT known via original TV show formats and, on the other hand, this is done by IT engineering students, using IT means in original combinations.

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