Іноземні мови (Sep 2015)
Web quest “Joining a Global Company” to teach students of economics to make oral presentations on professionrelated topics with visual (Power Point) support
Abstract
The paper tackles the issue of customizing Web Quest in teaching ESP. The author presents Web Quest “Joining a Global Company” developed to teach the students of economics to give oral presentations with visual (Power Point) support in English on profession-related topics. Following the Spanish researchers, the author outlines the structure of a Web Quest for ESP students aligning its components with the ESP Curriculum, the Standard of English for Economists and the course book on ESP used in her practice. The Task of the Web Quest was developed in compliance with the professional needs of prospective economists in making oral presentations, the Resources were selected with the view to meeting the students’ proficiency level in obtaining necessary information from the internet and making use of it while preparing a) the full text of the oral talk; b) its notes to be used as visual support (Power Point); c) notes to talk from. The paper touches upon the existing types of resources (content, meta-cognitive and linguistic) and introduces a new type, namely, contentcognitive resource. The Process section of the Web Quest is represented as a sequence of three stages (orientation-motivational, operational and presentation- evaluative) which are realized through fulfilling five Steps. Teaching to make a talk is actualized through Steps 2, 4 and 5 which incorporate, among others, a linguistic resource “language workshop” (I. Perez Torres), the latter representing algorithms of speech exercises A, B, C, D and E. Step 3 is aimed specifically at students’ independent learning to do the slides of Power Point. The exercises were intended to be done individually or in pairs of students and controlled by the teacher during face-to-face contact at every third or fourth class.
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