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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   STRATEGİES FOR ENHANCİNG GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS COMMUNİCATİON SKİLLS .

Authors:  ADRIANA CRISTIAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   Strategies for Enhancing Geography Students Communication Skills. In an era of technology and globalization, communication plays a major role. We may say that helping students to develop their communication skills in English is the need of the hour. On the other hand, selecting the most effective strategies and the most appropriate pedagogies to enable students to enhance their communication abilities is a real challenge for every ESP teacher. The main advantage of an ESP teacher is the fact that their learners are adults who are interested in their subject-matter field which provides them the meaningful context. Therefore, it is easier to motivate and help them, through various strategies, to become confident and proficient speakers of English. In communicative language teaching, there are various techniques used on a large scale in the classroom to achieve this goal: pair and group work, role-play, task and fluency-based activities etc. The aim of this paper is to present some strategies, adapted to Geography students’ needs, I use in my ESP classes. These ‘methods’ are meant to help learners to expand vocabulary, to improve fluency, to exhibit confidence and enthusiasm while using the English language, in other words, to communicate better.

Keywords: communication skills, communicative strategies, CLT (communicative language teaching), task-based activities, pair-work, group work, role-play, simulation, motivation, ESP (English for Specific Purposes)
 
         
     
         
         
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