Meeting Room 229 ESL students in construction trades need a certain level of proficiency in English, but their instructors require knowledge for negotiating the language and cultural barriers that impede communication, hinder learning, and jeopardize working relations. This session should particularly benefit secondary teachers, school administrators and professionals in business and industry. This presentation demonstrates a project conducted at an IEP in Melbourne, Australia, in which business English students created Web pages that advertised the services and products of local businesses. Information and examples of the process and product of this project are provided during the session. This work is a first attempt at codifying U.S. and British legal terms for Uzbek students of law.
Emphasis is on the approach to choosing and codifying the terms.
This paper offers the procedure of the analysis of the conference abstract arising from the Bakhtinian vision of genre. Due to its explicit character, the procedure, which aims at raising appropriate genre awareness, efficiently satisfies the needs of those nonnative English speakers who live and study outside Anglophone milieus. Based on the analysis, the presenter then describes a suite of exercises for sensitizing students to the organizational structure of discipline-specific academic writing. This presentation discusses the writing practices helping Mexican students with their academic work at four British universities and what new practices contributed to their academic writing. The participants affirmed that they came to Britain for a postgraduate degree without having any EFL courses to prepare them to confront academic demands.