TY - JOUR
T1 - Student presentations as a means of teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes
T2 - an action research study
AU - Ai, Bin
AU - Kostogriz, Alexander
AU - Wen, Daorong
AU - Wang, Lifei
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - With China’s rising role in the global economic market, both local and international employers seek graduates with well-developed communication skills in at least one additional language to complement their specific knowledge and abilities. University graduates are taught English for Specific Purposes (ESP) within their particular disciplines. This article reflects on the first author’s action research, using student presentations as a pedagogical practice with first year postgraduate students not majoring in English in a Chinese university. The authors propose that ESP pedagogy needs to progress beyond the monological Chinese Confucian model of education to a dialogic, inclusive, and hospitable model of the classroom as an imagined third space where creative, critical thinking is encouraged. This research aims to contribute to Chinese ESP pedagogy, to inform international educators of developments in the education of graduates for internationalized business practice, and to contribute to the global discourse on ESP pedagogy.
AB - With China’s rising role in the global economic market, both local and international employers seek graduates with well-developed communication skills in at least one additional language to complement their specific knowledge and abilities. University graduates are taught English for Specific Purposes (ESP) within their particular disciplines. This article reflects on the first author’s action research, using student presentations as a pedagogical practice with first year postgraduate students not majoring in English in a Chinese university. The authors propose that ESP pedagogy needs to progress beyond the monological Chinese Confucian model of education to a dialogic, inclusive, and hospitable model of the classroom as an imagined third space where creative, critical thinking is encouraged. This research aims to contribute to Chinese ESP pedagogy, to inform international educators of developments in the education of graduates for internationalized business practice, and to contribute to the global discourse on ESP pedagogy.
KW - action research
KW - Chinese postgraduate students
KW - dialogic teaching
KW - ESP pedagogy
KW - student presentations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058465107&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2018.1557136
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2018.1557136
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058465107
SN - 1356-2517
VL - 25
SP - 223
EP - 237
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -