Global Issues in ESP Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education

Сажко, Лілія Антонівна and Дьячкова, Яна Олегівна and Шевченко, Людмила and Сизенко, Анастасія (2021) Global Issues in ESP Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education Arab World English Journal (1). pp. 388-400. ISSN 2229-9327

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Abstract

In English for Specific Purposes, one of the challenges is to transform teaching and learning into a process, which focuses on the development of professional skills, enables students to become successful learners of the target language, and makes them more aware of the local and global environments. This paper aims to analyse key challenges that teachers and learners face in the classrooms and suggest a way of integrating global issues into the process of development of professional soft and hard skills. The paper studies the existing ESP literature in terms of presence of global issues, explores the perceptions of global issues among university students in Ukraine, outlines the correlation between professional skills and global competence. The findings suggest that there are numerous advantages of introducing materials based on global issues into the teaching process as it has synergetic effect of fusing professional skills, soft skills and global competence. The paper concludes that this fusion improves the skill set of a future professional and has a positive impact on the quality of higher education in general.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	English for Specific Purposes; ESP; global education; global issues; professional skills; soft skills; life competences; higher education; classroom challenges; Ukraine
Subjects:	Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Web of Science
Divisions:	Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Depositing User:	Сажко Ліля Антонівна
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2022 07:53
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2022 07:53
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/40403

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