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Intercultural communicative skills in the training of industrial engineers: a case-study on students' perceptions
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In order to understand the intercultural awareness development of engineering students, which is
necessary for them to fully function in globalized educational and professional work contexts, a
dedicated project was carried-out with Industrial Engineering students in a Higher Education
Portuguese Polytechnic Institute during three successive academic years in the framework of an
adjunct CLIL pilot experiment. Students’ perceptions were collected and assessed in order to tackle
two main research questions: “Do students feel they have more opportunities for global employment or
globally networked collaborative innovation?” and “What were the difficulties experienced because of
the CLIL methodological approach?”. Preliminary findings point out that even though students feel that
competence in English is important (or very important) concerning their work as engineers, the
majority states not being proficient in that language. Students also refer that the CLIL approach
allowed them to develop collaborative work with other colleagues and helped them understand better
their own personal language learning needs, thus contributing to facilitate their communication in a
foreign language.
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Higher Education Online learning technologies Intercultural communicative competence in engineering education Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Engineering
Citation
GASPAR, M.; RÉGIO, M.; MORGADO, M. Afonso de Passos (2018) - Intercultural communicative skills in the training of industrial engineers: a case-study on students' perceptions. In CHOVA, L. Gomez; MARTÍNEZ, A. López; TORRES, I. Candel - INTED2018 Proceedings. ISBN: 978-84-697-9480-7. p. 7319-7326
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