Experience of Tomsk polytechnic university in using MOOCs to facilitate ESP teaching to engineering students

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Ponte
Vol. 72, iss. 9.— 2016.— [P. 115-120]
Main Author: Kvashnina O. S. Olga Sergeevna
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет (ТПУ) Физико-технический институт (ФТИ) Кафедра иностранных языков физико-технического института (ИЯФТ)
Other Authors: Azhel Yu. P. Yuliya Petrovna, Fortuna A. S. Anastasiya Sergeevna
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Enhanced and intensified English language teaching of both students and university teaching staff is one of the prioritized tasks facing Russian universities since they are now attempting to occupy their place on the international educational market and are heading for the leading positions in the world university rankings. The present article examines the possibility of integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) in English into the ESP course syllabus. The experiment has been conducted for a group of Bioengineering students within the ESP course at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The authors discuss and analyze the revealed opportunities and challenges of the experiment and conclude that MOOCs are better to be used as effective autonomous resources for acquisition of Professional English.
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.21506/j.ponte.2016.9.38
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=653911