A Study on Improving ESP English Reading Ability for Students Major in Mechanical Design and Manufacturing

Juan Du,T Zhu,A Sharifi,M Anpo

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127104017

Abstract

ESP Teaching method is an approach that is significantly different from the conventional English Language Teaching method. ESP teaching is a market-driven, communicative English teaching model which is based on the overall principle of significantly improving learners' professional English social skills, learnercentered, and meets the needs of society and individuals. In this study, researcher’s attempt is to integrate ESP reading model into the design and manufacturing English teaching. The study aims to explores the effect of ESP reading in mechanical design and manufacturing English teaching from the following three points, preclass reading task detection, while-reading teaching and post-reading teaching. And the author finds that ESP reading model not only make students have a strong interest in English learning and reading, improve their English reading ability and application ability of professional knowledge, but also enhance their innovative thinking ability.

Highlights

With the globalization of the world economy and the integration of science and technology, "English learning in the future is no longer just English learning", "English teaching in the future is increasingly combined with a certain professional knowledge or a certain subject", and English for Special Purpose (ESP) teaching will become the mainstream of English teaching in the 21st century (Liu Runqing, 1996)
The research questions The present study aims to answer the following two questions: Can ESP reading improve the enthusiasm of students' professional English learning and their professional English application ability? How does ESP reading improve the effectiveness of English teaching for students major in Mechanical Design and Manufacturing?
Pre-class task detection based on professional knowledge makes students no longer think that reading teaching is just listening to teachers who explain vocabulary and articles as usual, but really integrated into specific professional knowledge learning, which embodies the principle that ESP reading teaching content meets learners' specific needs. 3.2 While-reading Teaching In the process of English reading teaching at the present stage, most teachers often regard the text as a language material, and most of the time let students study English vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns through the text, which makes many students pay attention only to vocabulary, phrases and sentence patterns

Summary

Introduction

With the globalization of the world economy and the integration of science and technology, "English learning in the future is no longer just English learning", "English teaching in the future is increasingly combined with a certain professional knowledge or a certain subject", and ESP teaching will become the mainstream of English teaching in the 21st century (Liu Runqing, 1996). The purpose of English teaching in China's ordinary higher engineering colleges is to enable students to use English as an auxiliary tool, so as to learn more professional knowledge, master the latest trends in the industry, and improve their professional skills and potential employability. Design and manufacturing can be summarized as follows: professional vocabulary and trade terms emerge in endlessly, reading materials contain a large number of professional scientific and technological vocabulary, and most of them adopt formulaic expressions; In the aspect of language use, passive voice, unqualified verbs and commonly used conditional sentences, long sentences and ellipsis sentences are often used.There is no doubt that English reading for mechanical design and manufacturing is different from English reading, which is related but different. English reading teaching for mechanical design and manufacturing specialty must not adopt the same mode and means as English reading teaching, otherwise, it will not achieve the purpose of English reading teaching for mechanical design and manufacturing specialty

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