English for environmental science - Tiếng anh ngành Môi trường

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 internal teaching material “English for environmental science” is compiled to fulfill the needs of the students. This can also serve as a reference for environmental engineers, environmental activists and anyone who concerns with environmental science. Based on English proficiency of the students and the ESP course requirements, the materials are carefully 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 commonly used in the expert-field are 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 environmental science context. The internal teaching material contains 4 chapters with 12 units related to environmental issues. The structure of each unit listed as follow: 1. Vocabulary 2. Authentic reading articles with comprehensive questions 3. Authentic video clips with listening tasks 4. Writing tasks 5. Speaking activities 6. Articles/ texts for further reading At the end of the textbook, we provide readers with a glossary for all the new words in each unit. Despite of the support of teachers at environmental engineering devision during the compiling process, 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, Environmental Engineering Division 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.