Teaching in English “Manufacturing Systems” to Students Whose Mother Tongue is not English
Journal Title: RECENT - Year 2009, Vol 10, Issue 27
Abstract
All along this paper, I will try to put into words the impressions collected about my lectures during the last academic course. For the first time I have lectured in English, which is not quite usual in my town as English is neither my mother tongue nor of the students attending to my lectures. Therefore, we have made use of a widely-spread language along the world to teach/learn a subject in English which has nothing to do with English philology, but with a field of engineering, more specifically with the Manufacturing Systems. To prepare myself before marking the beginning of this journey towards quality applied to technical teaching, I have attended to different courses to improve in my speaking in English in public, to learn how to write papers in English, and how to organise a presentation for different kind of listeners. To sum up, I have tried to do my best to make the students feel motivated to learn something in English without going to a University abroad, which is not perhaps a possibility for everybody even nowadays. With that aim, apart from the common theoretical lectures where the teacher speaks and the students listen quietly, I have used different media to complement the teaching. In one hand, I have used videos in English so that the students can make themselves familiar with the listening abilities and can visualise the manufacturing process that we are explaining in that moment in the theoretical lectures. In the other hand, I have organised visits to a pair of Manufacturing Companies in the surroundings of our town, so that the students can feel in person how it is the real Manufacturing world. Also, the students have developed their abilities in speaking in English technical vocabulary by preparing in pairs presentations in the lectures. To finish, apart from the theoretical learning the students have been provided with a practical learning, where they have experienced to programme in CNC language with the assistance of a simulator on a computer of what is a turning process and a milling process. Afterwards, they have seen the simulated work pieces being machined in a real lathe and in a real milling machine in our laboratory of machine-tools in the University College.
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Vanessa GARCÍA
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