TECHNICAL ENGLISH FOR ARCHITECTS A LEARNER-CENTRED APPROACH

The book Technical English for Architects, Civil engineers and Surveying engineers: A Learner-Centred Approach has been designed for non-native speakers of English who are studying engineering. It focuses on developing students context-based skills in English and their communicative competence by covering a wide range of topics related to specific disciplines of engineering i.e., architecture, civil and surveying engineering. This course aims at increasing students vocabulary and familiarizing them with a variety of text types and discourse environments. It involves them in using the language for a variety of purposes and in a variety of contexts and it encourages them to explore ways in which they can approach the different tasks. The book, which is for B level learners and above, contains: - Focused and contextualised reading - Authentic texts - Different types of vocabulary-building activities - Word-families activities - Real life tasks - Writing activities urging students to use the new language - Full glossary of technical terms