Authenticity in Developing English for Specific Purposes

Barbara Kołodziejczak

dr Barbara Kołodziejczak - Uniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu, Katedra i Zakład Informatyki i Statystyki

Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska

dr Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska - Politechnika Gdańska, Centrum Języków Obcych

Magdalena Roszak

dr Magdalena Roszak - Uniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu, Katedra i Zakład Informatyki i Statystyki


Abstract

Incorporating online resources and activities into a university course curriculum involves restructuring the whole teaching programme to achieve a synergistic effect. The development of web technologies has enabled educators to move from instructivism towards constructivism and constructionism, i.e., towards interactive, collaborative, and student-centred learning in an authentic context structured around the ideas of text authenticity, competence authenticity, learner authenticity, and classroom authenticity. This viewpoint is supported by the research into ESP skills that has been conducted at Poznan University of Medical Sciences and Gdańsk University of Technology. This phase has aimed to investigate correlations between authenticity and an increase in particular language skills.

Keywords:

e-learning, authenticity, constructivism, constructionism

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Published
2017-12-30


Kołodziejczak, B., Mokwa-Tarnowska, I. and Roszak, M. (2017) “Authenticity in Developing English for Specific Purposes”, Linguodidactica, 21, pp. 147–163. doi: 10.15290/lingdid.2017.21.11.

Barbara Kołodziejczak 
dr Barbara Kołodziejczak - Uniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu, Katedra i Zakład Informatyki i Statystyki
Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska 
dr Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska - Politechnika Gdańska, Centrum Języków Obcych
Magdalena Roszak 
dr Magdalena Roszak - Uniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu, Katedra i Zakład Informatyki i Statystyki