TeachingandLearning BusinessandTechnicalEnglish withTechnoPlusEnglish2.

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ChristineSick AppliedLanguages UniversityofAppliedSciences Saarbrcken

Overview
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Institutionalbackground Methodologicalapproach Technicalaspects HowtouseTechnoPlusEnglish2.0 Guidedtour DemonstrationEngineeringTopics:WindtoHydrogen DemonstrationSituations:Presentations Thee&mLearning Publisher:Howtoaddyourownteachingandlearning materials

Institutional background
TheHochschule fr Technik undWirtschaft desSaarlandes isaUniversityof AppliedSciences specialisinginEngineering,BusinessStudiesand more recently SocialSciences. TheAppliedLanguagesTeamonCampusAltSaarbrcken catersforthe teachingandlearningofforeignlanguagesin15BachelorandMaster programmes mainlyintheareaofEngineering. EngineeringgraduatesareexpectedtohaveEnglishlanguageskills enablingthemtooperateinaninternationalcontext. Asaresult,specialisedEnglish courseshavebeenintegratedasobligatory subjectsintothecurriculumofallourEngineeringcoursesofstudies. ThecoursesaremixturesofGeneralEnglish,BusinessEnglishand TechnicalEnglishrelatingtotherespectivecourseofstudiesandpreparing studentsforlevelB2.

Institutional background
WeexpectstudentstobeonlevelB1atthebeginningoftheirstudies,butalotofstudents tendtobebelowthatlevel.Weevenhavealargenumberofstudentswhohavenever learnedEnglishbefore. Thus,duetothiswiderangeoflearnerbiographies,ourlearnergroupsarevery heterogeneous. Todealwiththissituation,wehaveintroducedanumberofmeasures: Onlineplacementtests Fourweekprepcourses(Brckenkurse)inEnglishbeforethestartofthesemester Specialforeignlanguagelearningcounsellingservicetoenhancelearnerautonomy Tutorialsforstudentswhohaventreachedtheentrancelevelyet Useofcomputerassistedlanguagelearningprograms Inparticular,theintegrationofCALL/elearningintothecommunicativelanguagelearning processhasprovedtobehighlyadvantageous fortheselearnergroups. DespitetheabundanceofmultimediaBusinessEnglishprogramsavailableonthemarket, therehaveonlybeenafewprogramsmeetingthespecialneedsofengineeringstudents, whoneedtoacquireskillsinbothBusinessEnglishand TechnicalEnglish.

Methodological approach
TechnoPlusEnglisch isbasedona needsanalysis carriedoutincooperationwithaninternationally operatingengineeringcompany. Maintargetgroup:GermanlearnersofEnglishonLevelB1 workinginorpreparingforworkinthe engineeringfield Theprogramfollowsacommunicativeapproach enablinglearnerstotrainthefourskills reading, listening,speakingandwriting inanintegratedway. Combination ofBusinessEnglishandTechnicalEnglish BUSINESSENGLISH:7CommunicativeSituations: Enquiries Arrangements Negotiating Meetings OrderProcessing Presentations ApplyingforaJob TECHNICALENGLISH:23EngineeringTopicsbasedonauthentictextsandvideosfromvariousengineering areastraininglearnersinReadingandVideoComprehension AnadditionalGrammarsection AprogramrelatedLexiconsection

Technical aspects
IndependentinteractiveselfstudyprogramonDVDROM Integrationofvarioustypesofmedia,includingvideo Presentationofcontentswithaccesstovarioushelptools Linksbetweenprogramsections Highlevelofinteractivity(spellchecker,differenttypesofadaptive feedback,extensiveerroranticipation,multiplesolutions) DistanceLearningoptions cateringforthetrainingofproductiveskills Inadistancelearningsettingusingavideoconferencingsystemand email OntheInternetorintranet Inaclassicalcommunicativelanguagelearningclassroom

How touse TechnoPlusEnglish2.0

TechnoPlusEnglishcanbeusedinavarietyoflearningandteachingsettings: Selfstudy athome Selfstudyinaselfstudycentreattheuniversity Inacommunicativelanguagelearningandteachingsettingina multimedialanguagelearninglaboratory integratingmonitoredselfstudy phasesandcommunicativephases Inablendedlearningsetting combiningselfstudyathomewithDistance Learningphasesandcommunicativelanguageteachingandlearning phases ingroupsattheuniversityorincompanies Toprepareforworkintheengineeringfieldaswellasfortestssuchasthe newMONDIALEOnlineTechnicalEnglishTest.

The e&mLearning Publisher:How toadd your own teaching andlearning materials

Learnerswantaccess toTechnoPlusEnglishontheinternet usingtheirownPCs orlaptops Learnersareincreasinglymobileandaskforaccessfromtheirsmartphones, tabletsorebookreaders LearnersandteacherswantfurtherEngineeringTopics Teachersusuallydonthavethetime andtechnicalknowhow tocreatetheir ownonlineinteractiveteachingandlearningmaterials Teachersdontfeellikeproducingthecontentagainandagaintosuit thevarious devices inuse:PCs,tablets,smartphones,ebookreaders Creatingtheirownonlinematerials forthesedifferentdevicesmustbe easy fast immediate

emLP:Samecontent displayed onvarious devices

smart phone

e-book reader

Internet

IWB

tablet

Existing content inCALL4Uor Moodle

easily imported by the emLP viaaspecial interface

Inputofnew content viaWordor online

The layoutandinteractivity manager (LIM)

HeartoftheemLP Itautomaticallyadjusts thelayout oftheimportedcontents tosuitthesizeofthevariousoutputdevices,suchas tablets,smartphones,IWBs,ebookreaders. Italsoautomaticallyadapts thefunctionality/interactivity mode tosuitthevariousoutputdevices (e.g.amatching exercisetoberealisedasdrag&drop,tap&tap orbubbles). Thegraphicdesigncanbemanuallyadjusted byEUROKEYor theusersthemselves.

Existing content under CALL4Uor Moodle

Inputofnew content viaWordor online

Displayed inawebbrowser

Displayed onatablet PC/Ebook reader

Displayed onasmartphone

Displayed onanIWB

Exercise types supported by emLP

plain text enriched text matching exercises fillin exercises multiplechoice true/false dropdown exercises

Advantagesfor the teacher/materials developer

Userfriendly,easytouseinterface Notechnical/programmingknowhowrequired EasyandquickinputofcontentviaWordoronline Contentwillbedisplayedimmediatelywiththeclickofamouseon variousoutputdevices Automaticadjustmentoflayoutandinteractivitymode Correctionofmistakesincontenttobemadeonlyonceforalldevices Changestocontenttobeinputonlyonceforalldevices

Further information
http://www.technoplus.info Christine Sick Applied Languages School of Engineering Hochschule fr Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes / University of Applied Sciences Goebenstr. 40 66117 Saarbrcken Tel.: + 49-681-5867-420 Fax: + 49-681-5867-122 E-mail: christine.sick@htw-saarland.de http://www.htw-saarland.de/Members/christine.sick Ludwig Kuhn EUROKEY Software GmbH Fischbachstr. 86 66125 Saarbrcken-Dudweiler Tel.: 06897 - 790 89 0 Fax: 06897 - 790 89 99 E-mail: technoplus@eurokey.de

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