Resumen de Creating a leading edge: the linkbetween second language proficiency,academic performance and employment leverage for engineering students
John D. Gilleard, Jenni Gilleard
This paper considers how a building services engineering department sought to 1) better understandstudent second-language communication problems, 2) enhance second language proficiency, and 3)adopt skills-based industrial learning approaches to impact both student academic performance andemployment leverage. Increasing globalisation has created a need for academia and industry towork more closely together to achieve better language skills among engineers. This study suggeststhat using specifically focused, subject/departmental-based language assessment strategies, target-ing language teaching to performance needs, positively encouraging continuous student motivation,and demonstrably valuing individual language efforts could help engineering students to developtheir language skills.
