Active pedagogical strategies in teaching english for specific purposes
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https://doi.org/10.30827/dreh.vi20.23860Keywords:
active pedagogical strategies; cooperative methods; English for specific purposesAbstract
Language teaching for specific purposes aims to prepare students to act linguistically in a given scientific area, for academic or industry professions. This article addresses the teaching of a foreign language (English) to a group of students from the São João de Deus Nursing School, in Évora, Portugal. The presentation and application of the strategies and collaborative methods used took place in the 1st semester of the 2015/2016 academic year.
A descriptive-interpretative methodology was chosen, since the aim of the present investigation is to monitor how the strategies and methods listed are seen by students, that is, if they are perceived as enhancing the learning of English for Specific Purposes (EFP). We also aim to determine if the use of cooperative methods increase the efficiency of the strategies, consequently bringing an improvement in the domain of language skills in the vocational area of nursing.
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