English for civil and industrial construction - Giáo trình tiếng anh chuyên ngành xây dựng dân dụng và công nghiệp

Abstract

Further from its own justification, teaching and learning English has increasingly occupied high interests from Vietnamese in the globalization race. Practical languages for various contexts are likely to work as the core of this interaction. Given this situation, English for specific purposes (ESP) courses have been incorporated into foreign language curricula of higher education institutions in Vietnam. It is compulsory for students to complete ESP modules before graduating. By having the objectives of the ESP teaching and learning the textbook “English for civil and industrial construction” is compiled to fulfill the needs of the students. This can also serve as a reference for engineers, architects, workers and anyone who concern with the industrial and civil construction field. Based on English proficiency of the students and the ESP course requirements, the materials are careful selected and designed. The textbook involves authentic materials with job-related content which reproduce an immersion environment and provide realistic contexts for tasks that relate to learners’ major. Vocabulary, grammar structures that are common used in the expert-field included in this ESP material. This textbook also offers various tasks and activities in order to help learners use language skills more effectively in the industrial and civil construction context. The textbook contains 8 units with 8 different topics: The procedure of building construction, Site investigations and Soil mechanics, Building materials, The design process, Foundations, Structures, Water supply and Quality and Safety during Construction. Grammar bank and glossary are attached at the final pages of the textbook. The structure of each part listed as follow: - Articles/ texts with Reading comprehension check - Vocabulary. - Writing tasks. - Speaking activities. - Video clips with listening tasks. - Articles/ texts for Further reading.4 We hope that this textbook can be a practical and useful ESP teaching material for practitioners in industrial and civil construction field in general and for students at University of Transport Technology (UTT) in specific. Although during the compiling process the teachers at industrial and civil construction department supported us a lot, the textbook still has some unavoidable limitations. Correspondingly, we expect to receive feedback from the readers to improve this material in the future. We appreciate Ministry of Transport, University of Transport Technology, Foreign Language Department, Industrial and Civil Construction Department for supporting us to complete this textbook. We are also very grateful to teachers at UTT and at many other universities for valuable contributions to this textbook.