English Education for Engineers in the World of Globalization : A Report of an Undergraduate and Graduate English Program with an Emphasis on Writing

• SHIMAZU Nobuko

  九州工業大学情報工学部

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• グローバル化する世界における技術者のための英語教育 : ライティングを重視した学部と大学院の英語プログラム報告

Abstract

In an increasingly globalized world, demand for engineers well versed in English remains strong. As a professor of English in the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, I have sought with the aid of two associate professors to improve the English program for our engineering students together to help meet that very demand. In order to assist other English teachers in similar situations to improve their own English programs, I would like to report on the ideas and methods presently used in our undergraduate English program, specifically the first-year compulsory and common course with its emphasis on paragraph writing which students from each of the five departments within the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering are required to take. In addition, I would also like to report my ideas and teaching methods for a graduate research paper writing course. The objective of this course is to teach graduate students how to write presentations for conferences and papers for journals at the international level.

Journal

• Journal of JSEE

  Journal of JSEE 56 (1), 61-67, 2008

  Japanese Society for Engineering Education

Keywords

• English Education for Engineers
• Compulsory and Common English Course
• Paragraph Writing
• Graduate Research Paper Writing Course

Details

• CRID: 1390001204493308288
• NII Article ID: 10021152159
• NII Book ID: AN10486063
• DOI: 10.4307/jsee.56.1_61
• ISSN: 18810764
• ISSN: 13412167
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed