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Teaching/Learning English for Technical Purposes - TENTEC/LENTEC

Research project

Inactive research

Project period

1999 - 2003

Project owner

The Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg

Financier

EU/The Leonardo da Vinci Programme

Area

Education and learning

Topic

Educational Sciences

Short description

These are two successive EU projects in the Leonardo da Vinci Programme. Students from several European vocationally oriented schools worked in a virtual mode to solve technical problem-based “cases” in English. Self-assessment of language learning was performed with the aid of the Swedish and Dutch European Language Portfolio and the Swedish self-assessment material for A-Level English. Language learning in an ICT context was in focus.

A validation study was carried out in English listening comprehension, a Web page was created, and a teacher manual (with results and suggested ways of working with language learning in a virtual environment) was published.

A further follow-up project has been proposed (with the support of the Swedish programme office): Needs Analysis and Self-Assessment of Language Achievement Competences (NASLAC).

Partner countries

TENTEC: Sweden, coordinator, France, Slovenien, Slovenia, Austria

LENTEC: Sweden, coordinator, Denmark, Estonia, France, Slovenien, Slovenia

Co-workers at the University of Gothenburg

TENTEC
Anne Dragemark Oscarson

LENTEC
Mats Oscarson
Anne Dragemark Oscarson
Sylvi Vigmo

References

Dragemark, Anne (2000). Self-Assessment in language learning - Self-assessment within the TENTEC Project, Teaching English for Technical Purposes, Leonardo da Vinci projekt, http://www.skolverket.se, http://www.pedc.se/tentec/didactics/assessment.html

Dragemark, Anne; Ottosson, Sven-Erik; Persson, Ove & Tallvid, Martin (2000). Working across the curriculum. A description of co-operation across the curriculum, on the TENTEC Project, TENTEC homepage: http://www.pedc.se/experiences/teacher/html

Dragemark, Anne (2004). The Use of Self-Assessment in the LENTEC Project in The LENTEC Guide to Learning English: Problem Based Learning in Virtual Mobility Projects

Dragemark, Anne; Oscarson, Mats & Perkins, Polly (2003). LENTEC: Self-Assessment of Language Skills. Language Testing Update, Issue 34, p 86 - 87.

Dragemark, Anne & Vigmo, Sylvi (2004). European Vocational Students Solve Problem Based Learning Cases Virtually Working in the LENTEC Project. LMS Lingua 2, pp 27 - 35.

Dragemark, Anne (2004). Självbedömning av engelsk hörförståelse i några europeiska yrkesinriktade klasser. I Larsson Ringqvist, Eva; Linnarud, Moira & Valfridsson, Ingela
(red). Forskning om undervisning i främmande språk. Presentationer vid workshop i Växjö 10-11 juni 2004. Växjö: Acta Wexionensis.

Dragemark, Anne (2006). Learning English for Technical Purposes: The LENTEC Project. In Tim Roberts (Ed.) Self, Peer, and Group Assessment in E-Learning. Pp 169-190. Hershey: Idea Group Inc.

Kosel B. (2006). Self- and peer assessment in a problem-based learning environment. Learning English by solving a technical problem. In Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E-learning. Pp 191-209. (Ed. T. Roberts). Ideas Group. Central Queensland University Australia

Kosel Mrak B. (2004). Alternative Assessment in Problem-based Learning for ESP. Action Research Approach. Vestnik, Vol 38, 1-2, Ljubljana: Društvo za tuje jezike in književnosti Republike Slovenije, str. 77 - 92.

Kosel, B. (2004). LENTEC - problem-based learning in virtual mobility projects: Learning ENglish for TEChnical purposes . In IATEFL Slov. Branch newsletter, 8/31, p. 25.

Kosel B. (2004). Learning English for Technical Purposes Crossing Borders. Problem-Based learning in Digital learning Environment. LENTEC- LEONARDO DA Vinci Project. I. Sanz Sainz, A.F. Lago (Eds): Current Trends of Languages for Specific Purposes in an International and Mulitcultural Context. Universidad de Granada, Associacion European de lenguas para Fines Especificos. pp. 469-477.

Perkins, Polly; Dragemark, Anne, & Vigmo, Sylvi (2003). The LENTEC Guide to Learning English Problem-Based Learning in Virtual Mobility Projects. Malmö: The European Commission/Leonardo da Vinci Programme

Vigmo, Sylvi (2004). Learning in a virtual environment. Experiences and attitudes - An emerging student profile. The LENTEC Guide to Learning English: Problem Based Learning in Virtual Mobility Projects.

Vigmo, Sylvi (2005). Towards a deeper understanding of communicative interaction - A European case study. I Larsson Ringqvist, Eva; Linnarud, Moira & Valfridsson, Ingela (red). Forskning om undervisning i främmande språk. Presentationer vid workshop i Växjö 10-11 juni 2004. Växjö: Acta Wexionensis.

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4 January 2024