Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level

This paper is based on a comparative study into the challenges of teaching technical vocabulary encountered while teaching at a Technical Science College in Turkey and at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. It is a fact that delivering technical terms in English poses some difficulties to the teac...

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Main Authors:	Sahin, Mehmet, Haslinda, Hashim
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	INTI International University College 2007
Subjects:	LC Special aspects of education PE English
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spelling	ump-147732017-03-27T02:38:10Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14773/ Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level Sahin, Mehmet Haslinda, Hashim LC Special aspects of education PE English This paper is based on a comparative study into the challenges of teaching technical vocabulary encountered while teaching at a Technical Science College in Turkey and at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. It is a fact that delivering technical terms in English poses some difficulties to the teachers. Some of these obstacles stem from the task inside classroom itself as a specific point in teaching language field. The second comes from teachers as they are generally less productive to present the vocabulary items in the event of encountering teaching complications. Some problems arise from learners themselves as they generally fall behind of essential language level or they lack motivation. This paper aims (a) to analyse the challenges of teaching technical vocabulary from teachers’ perspectives, (b) analyse them in terms of syllabus design, and (c) render some recommendations towards stakeholders in order that they should take all these barriers into account while designing their curricula INTI International University College 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14773/1/pbmsk-2007-haslinda-challenges%20of%20teaching%20technical%20vocabulary.pdf Sahin, Mehmet and Haslinda, Hashim (2007) Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL 2007), 15-16 November 2007 , Putrajaya, Malaysia. pp. 1-7.. http://ictl.intimal.edu.my/ictl2007/proceeding/Full_Paper/3C-01-Paper%2085%20(Turkey).doc
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description	This paper is based on a comparative study into the challenges of teaching technical vocabulary encountered while teaching at a Technical Science College in Turkey and at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. It is a fact that delivering technical terms in English poses some difficulties to the teachers. Some of these obstacles stem from the task inside classroom itself as a specific point in teaching language field. The second comes from teachers as they are generally less productive to present the vocabulary items in the event of encountering teaching complications. Some problems arise from learners themselves as they generally fall behind of essential language level or they lack motivation. This paper aims (a) to analyse the challenges of teaching technical vocabulary from teachers’ perspectives, (b) analyse them in terms of syllabus design, and (c) render some recommendations towards stakeholders in order that they should take all these barriers into account while designing their curricula
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Sahin, Mehmet Haslinda, Hashim
author_facet	Sahin, Mehmet Haslinda, Hashim
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title	Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level
title_short	Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level
title_full	Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level
title_fullStr	Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level
title_full_unstemmed	Challenges of Teaching Technical Vocabulary at University Level
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publisher	INTI International University College
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