Publications(January 2002 - December 2002)
- M. McDonald, "English Training for IT Researchers
and Students in Japan," Journal of the IEICE,
Vol. J85, No. 9, pp. 696-699, September 2002.
Abstract - Technical
English education in Japan often fails to prepare students
adequately for the tasks they face in their professional
careers. Some of the reasons for this lie in the Japanese
approach to education as a whole, while others are more
specific, such as a lack of good technical English study
materials and a lack of focus on the features of technical
genres. A satisfactory technical English education should
be (1) focused on the students' needs, (2) at their level,
(3) stimulating, (4) in English, and (5) aimed at learning
through English, not about English. The author describes
how he has attempted to meet these aims in teaching English
to researchers, advanced undergraduates, and freshmen
undergraduates in a computer science research laboratory
and computer science departments at two universities.
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