Communication skills in engineering professions: communicative language ability in foreign languages

• Autores: Milevica Bojović, Lidija Palurović, Lena Tica
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. Extra 1 (Parte B), 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Engineering Education: Beyond Technical Skills Part II—Case Studies Linked to the Promotion of Specific Technical Skills), págs. 377-383
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The importance and the levels of foreign language communication skills of engineering students, prospective engineers, inthe fields of agronomy and food technology are analyzed in the paper. The models of communicative competence andcommunicative language ability are illustrated. Communicative language ability was measured by applying the instrumentCommunicative language ability scale. The sample consists of 60 engineering students in the fields of agronomy and foodtechnology, studying English as a foreign language at the Faculty of Agronomy, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. Theobtained results indicate moderate level of communicative language ability within the sample. The levels of all elements ofcommunicative language ability of engineering students of biotechnical sciences are influenced by the teaching/learningapproach applied, particularly by communication-oriented approach.