Abstract
Training is one of the organizational forms of postgraduate. In teaching English for specific purposes ESP it is very useful as it allows the student to be approached to the real scenario where he needs to communicate, among other functions. The teacher never loses his role but according to the scenario, it may include other skills that are not the ones they are used to display in the traditional class. Being a tutor in the workplace is very challenging. Sometimes teachers are scared of failing, as they have to face a technical vocabulary as well as some unforeseen situations which have to be handle with some expertise. The key is not to be afraid of these new experiences. Using the student’s expertise in their field together with the teacher´s skills may become a very powerful tool. This article goes into the different roles of the tutor as facilitator of the pedagogical process during this organizational form. The author of this paper wants to provide with some confidence to teachers while they are specializing in different ESP scenarios. That´s why she has shared examples of a training that was carried out in an oil exploration and production company in the province of Matanzas through three performance tasks carried out in the workplace. This may be generalized to other contexts too.
Highlights
Training as an organizational form of professional development has multiple potentials that must be exploited in the appropriate work scenarios
As it can be seen the role of the English teacher in these trainings is laborious and at the same time requires a high degree of specialization by the teacher
[8] Their functions do not deny that of the teacher who teaches English for general purposes but does require more refined skills
Summary
Training as an organizational form of professional development has multiple potentials that must be exploited in the appropriate work scenarios. Its training actions are aimed at updating, perfecting, systematizing and consolidating practical methodological skills in scenarios of the work activity, where the teacher serves as a tutor who monitors the performance of the work actions performed by the students (workers, industry specialists, directors etc.) [1]. In the teaching of English for specific purposes (IFE), training is very important, as it puts the student in contact with the real object of his daily activity at his job. This work aims to explain the different functions of the tutor during the training as well as describe an experience that was carried out in the Exploration Company - Production Center in Matanzas, Cuba
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