Curriculum renewal pathways for English for Specific Purposes Teachers
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2007
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Raimaturapong, A.
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AARE 2006 Annual International Education Research Conference, 2007, pp.1-16
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AARE 2006 Annual International Education Research Conference (26 Nov 2006 : Adelaide, Australia)
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This study proposes practical strategies for EFL/ESP teachers in Thailand. These involve a pathway for action and reflection on current practices concerning curriculum renewal and professional development. The pathway involves exploring relevant discourse communities; evaluation of current instructional materials and advice; adopting genre as a framework for analysis of texts from target settings; and teacher professional development. The study also identified potential workplace English characteristics that can be exploited to support the preparation of today's engineering graduates. The quality of higher education should be relative to its purpose, and its role to impart in students the knowledge and understandings that are necessary for them to become well-educated professionals in the world. To be knowledgeable, teachers need to seek knowledge relevant to their students' professions. Knowledge of professional discourses and procedures will help ESP teachers fill the discoursal requirement of their students and solve their teaching problems. Teachers who see themselves with multiple roles, as seekers, learners, or explorers, are bound to discover things about themselves, their environment and the students they work with that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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