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Project-based ESP course with weekly projects and a term dictionary-program project for computing students

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Description

The article's intervention is a series of weekly projects plus one term project, with titles chosen in light of the needs analysis questionnaire results. Weekly projects covered topics such as parts of a computer, purchasing a computer, and implementation and management of LAN; the term project was designing a dictionary program fed by 2800 vocabulary items collected by eight groups. Co-operative learning techniques, peer and group coaching, individualized learning and activity-based learning were employed throughout.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Weekly project titles chosen in light of the results of the needs analysis questionnaire

Constraints

  • Term project continued for three months and meetings took place in the library and the researchers' office

Target Learners

  • tertiary level Computer Science and Information Technology EFL students

Learning Goals

  • specialization-related English vocabulary acquisition
  • reading skills
  • translation abilities
  • self-instruction and co-operative learning

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Abdul-Aziz Saleh Alsamani & Ayman Sabry Daif-Allah. (2016). Introducing Project-based Instruction in the Saudi ESP Classroom: A Study in Qassim University. English Language Teaching, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n1p51
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id esp-project-work-course-qassim
title Project-based ESP course with weekly projects and a term dictionary-program project for computing students
description The article's intervention is a series of weekly projects plus one term project, with titles chosen in light of the needs analysis questionnaire results.
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