Overlapping of ESP/EAP and content courses revisited

[ES] This paper deals with some key issues in a controversial topic, that of the existing overlapping between ESP/EAP courses and simultaneously-run content courses. Some examples are provided and analyzed to be aware of the need of ESP/EAP practitioners to have a fairly deep knowledge of those technical matters they have to deal with in order to be as genuinely communicative as possible. Later on, a list of principles for designing successful ESP/EAP courses is presented and justified. After putting into practice a communicative approach founded on those principles for a period of five years, the opinion of those students who have taken two ESP/EAP courses was gathered –an ad hoc questionnaire was developed for the purpose–. data are analyzed to hypothesize the long-run correlation between applying the above mentioned principles and the positive opinion of students on their teachers when those principles are applied at university level.

LFE y la necesidad de trabajar destrezas profesionales en Grados técnicos

[ES] Con este artículo nos proponemos dar a conocer la experiencia empírica de carácter docente-investigador que hemos llevado a cabo en el último año (2013-14). Pretendemos enfatizar el papel del inglés con fines específicos, más concretamente de carácter científico-técnico en el ámbito académico y profesional. A partir de nuestra experiencia en el aula, nuestra hipótesis de trabajo ha consistido en explorar hasta qué punto puede un proyecto como éste diagnosticar las dificultades con las que se encuentran los estudiantes al hacer una presentación académica.