Abstract
The current study was an attempt to investigate EFL students’ attitudes regarding team-teaching approach. In addition, it explored to what extent the team-teaching approach was effective in terms of enhancing Electrical Engineering Students' English proficiency in an English for Specific Academic Purpose (ESAP) program. To this end, 60 university students studying Electrical Engineering at the faculty of Engineering in Yazd University enrolled in the ESP course participated in this study. Prior to the instruction, the students were randomly divided into two groups as control and experimental. The experimental group was instructed based on the team-teaching approach while the control group was taught based on the traditional approach. The data was gathered through a pretest, posttest, and a questionnaire. The analysis of data via independent sample t-test and descriptive analysis revealed that most of the students had a positive attitude toward utilizing team-teaching approach. Furthermore, the findings indicated that Electrical Engineering students who were taught through team teaching approach performed better than those taught by a single instructor.
Highlights
No one can deny the fact that there has been a growing need to use English language in each specific professional field
In Iran, English is the language of a lot of academic textbooks, especially in engineering and English language skills and knowledge of students who enter into the portals of engineering colleges differ considerably, it has become imperative to evaluate their capability to manage the syllabus of Communicative/Business English course prescribed for them
The results of the post-test revealed that the scores of the students in both experimental and control group improved significantly in comparison to their performance on the pre-test, there was a significant difference between the students of experimental group and those of control group in terms of their proficiency in English at the end of the semester, i.e. the post-test mean score of the students who were taught the newly developed materials (16.33) was much greater than that of those who were exposed to traditional approach (13.43). This implies that Electrical Engineering students who were taught through team teaching approach performed better than those taught by a single instructor
Summary
No one can deny the fact that there has been a growing need to use English language in each specific professional field. John (1998) state that the teaching process of any kind of language for occupational purposes should take as a starting pint the analysis of the four traditional skills within an appropriate context, that being, as far as possible, the conditions given in the workplace They subscribe to the idea that an effective syllabus must attempt to overcome the deficiencies of the educational system under which they are operating. In the absence of adequate competency in English language skills, majority of the students find it difficult to become completely proficient in the technical terminologies of science and engineering textbooks written in English They require an adequate level of skills and knowledge in English in order to alleviate engineering learning and to keep step with the latest trends in the field of science and technology. When the language competency levels of the learners are assessed, it will become easier to design teaching methodologies appropriate for different groups
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