Teaching ‘Technical Report Writing’ Through Task Based Language Learning
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
This paper is a record of an innovative teaching strategy that focused on helping learners write logical reports. The research, involved 818 Engineering students from a renowned technical institution in India. The study group were in their first semester enrolled in ‘English for Engineers course’, with report writing as a crucial component. ‘Reports’ demand a specific format and need to be logically presented, with relevant factual details and proof of what it states. In most of the technical Universities, teachers often use the ‘product method’ to teach, report writing. The report of this study, will instigate teachers to think out of the box and visualize areas where the technology can be put to a productive use. The teaching method involved a task-based learning by combining the ‘product and process’ approach to writing. The paper details the tasks and technical platforms chosen to enhance the teaching –learning experience. As a result, of which the learners produced effective reports that resulted from the experiment that involved extensive reading, discussions and reasoning. The experiment was quite challenging to coordinate as it involved constant mentoring, feedback, corrections and follow up from the teaching perspective. While from the learning aspect, it proved to open up challenges to the target group in the process it generated a positive response from the students as they progressed to meet the goal set.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Mercy Amutha, G. Christopher
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP252134
- DOI -
- Views 143
- Downloads 0
Silas Marner as a Novel of Human Relations
Silas Marner (1861), is interesting among George Eliot's compositions for its curtness and its evident symbolic lucidity. The narrative of Marner's ejection from society and his inevitable recovery through the adoration...
PROBLEMS ON STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE WRITING: SFL ANALYSIS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION
This paper aimed to describe the students’ problems in narrative writing. The population of this research involved 38 students of senior high school students at one of senior high school in Riau province. This research e...
INDIAN CHICK LIT: A GENRE FOR DESI GIRLS
Chick Lit, a contemporary genre, is said to have a dual Anglo-American origin in 1996 with the publication of Bridget Jones’s Diary in the UK and Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City in the USA. The commercial genre gets...
Writing Strategies of Tunisian MA History Students
Writing is difficult to master for foreign language learners. In the Tunisian context, English is a foreign language with French as a second language and Standard Arabic as a first language. Despite learning English for...
STUDENTS' ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATION TOWARD ENGLISH LANGUAGE - DONGOLA UNIVERSITY
This paper outlines the results of a survey which was carried out to discover Dongola University students’ motivation and attitudes towards learning the English language. The study investigated students’ motivation in te...