ERIC Number: EJ1377232
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
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EISSN: EISSN-2158-2440
Students' and Teachers' Beliefs about Effective Teaching of English for Occupational Purposes
SAGE Open, v13 n1 Jan-Mar 2023
Effective teaching of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) is considered to enhance workers' performance, efficacy, and professional development. Thus, what students and teachers believe to lead to effective EOP teaching is worth exploring. This study set out to compare students' and teachers' beliefs about effective EOP teaching. It employed a sequential mixed-methods design with a questionnaire initially administered to 306 voluntary participants, including 108 teachers and 198 sophomore and junior students who participated in teaching and learning EOP. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews with 30 voluntary participants selected from the first stage sample were conducted. The findings showed that students and teachers generally indicated their high agreement with communicative language teaching strategies in EOP. However, discrepancies were found in most observed factors of EOP teaching, including language skills, communicative language teaching, content and language integrated learning, and assessment, except technology integration. From the findings, it is suggested that both EOP students and teachers should be informed of what constitutes effective EOP teaching.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Technology Integration, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Comparative Analysis, Communicative Competence (Languages), Content and Language Integrated Learning, Grammar, College Faculty, Language Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Cultural Awareness, Error Correction, Item Analysis, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Vietnam
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