Writing for engineering

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-11 DOI:10.1075/aral.19009.sim
Claire Simpson-Smith
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Abstract Professional engineers must move easily between concretization and abstraction in written communication, while remaining rooted in the context of the particular engineering problem to be solved. Engineering programmes often seek to use a replicated professional situation in order to prepare students for the workplace; however, there are questions as to how a decontextualized task prepares students for the language and knowledge requirements of the field. This paper reports on the findings of a Master’s research project, which investigated this issue through a comparison of two sets of engineering feasibility studies: publicly available industry texts and English as an Additional Language (EAL) student texts from a Master’s engineering program. The findings show that while the corpora have some similarities, there are differences that suggest that the student texts are less bound to the concrete reality of their project, which has implications for those working in disciplinary and professional literacies.
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专业工程师必须在书面交流中轻松地在具体和抽象之间移动,同时保持扎根于要解决的特定工程问题的背景。工程类课程经常寻求利用复制的专业情境,以便让学生为职场做好准备;然而,关于一个非情境化的任务如何使学生为该领域的语言和知识要求做好准备,存在一些问题。本文报告了一个硕士研究项目的研究结果,该项目通过比较两组工程可行性研究来调查这个问题:公开的工业文本和硕士工程项目的英语作为附加语言(EAL)学生文本。研究结果表明,虽然语料库有一些相似之处,但也存在差异,表明学生的文本与他们项目的具体现实联系较少,这对那些从事学科和专业素养工作的人有影响。
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期刊介绍: The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.
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