공학인증프로그램을 위한 교양영어교육과정 개발

A study on curriculum development for general English for the ABEEK program

This study proposes the ideas of developing General English (GE) curriculum for students majoring in engineering and enrolled in ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education in Korea) program. There is a request to modify the current GE curriculum for college learners into English for Specific Purposes (ESP) based curriculum, which reflects the needs of ABEEK participants. For the first step to design the GE curriculum for ABEEK, the present study not only developed the survey questions for learners and professors, but also reviewed the curriculum currently used and proposed by ABEEK center. The results of survey were analyzed by target needs and learning needs, which are the basic concepts of ESP. The most requested target needs are communicative competence, learners-centered approach and proficiency-based curriculum. Learning needs are mostly described as practice of practical English learning and proficiency-based instruction. The comparison between the groups of professors and learners also revealed that more active interactions between the groups, learners and professors of English and engineering, are invoked to develop the GE curriculum for the ABEEK program.