A Higher-Education Teaching Module for Integrating Industry Content and Language through Online Recruitment Advertisements

Autor/in	Tatzl, Dietmar
Titel	A Higher-Education Teaching Module for Integrating Industry Content and Language through Online Recruitment Advertisements
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 8 (2018) 3, S.643-672 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2083-5205
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Content Analysis; Course Content; Interdisciplinary Approach; Language of Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Academic Achievement; English for Special Purposes; Aerospace Education; Engineering Education; Longitudinal Studies; Advertising; Recruitment; Student Attitudes; Writing Assignments; Course Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Computational Linguistics; Austria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Inhaltsanalyse; Kursprogramm; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Schulleistung; Ingenieurausbildung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Werbung; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Österreich
Abstract	Empirical evaluations of practical teaching units integrating content and language in higher education are rare and deserve more attention. The current article aims to narrow this gap by providing an empirical study of an integrating content and language in higher education (ICLHE, Smit & Dafouz, 2012) teaching module. It investigates the effectiveness of a content-based English for specific purposes module in tertiary aeronautical engineering education, which incorporates recruitment advertisements as online resources. The study adopted a mixed-methods approach and surveyed three aeronautical engineering student groups (N = 141) over three consecutive years on their perceptions of the module's learning outcomes. This longitudinal survey was complemented by a teacher-assessed writing task and a qualitative content analysis of online recruitment advertisements (N = 80) in a self-built corpus. All three year groups rated the 10 questionnaire statements on a 5-point Likert scale rather equally, thus suggesting a similar perception of academic achievement stemming from the module's completion. This student view was supported by the results of the writing assignment. In short, the module's effectiveness was corroborated both quantitatively and qualitatively, which identifies this teaching concept as a feasible way forward. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Adam Mickiewicz University Department of English Studies. Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Ul. Nowy Swiat 28-30, 62-800 Kailsz, Poland. e-mail: ssllt@amu.edu.pll; Web site: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01