Process of teaching and learning English focused on communication for professional purposes

Abstract

Communication in English is becoming more important due to the growth of scientific, academic and working relationships between professionals. The diagnosis made to students of Electrical Engineering of the University of Moa, Cuba, corroborated that the scientific problem of this research is given by the deficiencies in the communicative performance, motivated by a process of Learning English not very coherent. This article aims to present a methodological approach of communication to contribute to the development of professional communicative skills of these students. The fulfillment of this purpose required the use of the methods: hypothetical-deductive, analytical-synthetic and systemic structural-functional, as well as the revision of documentation and the interview, as techniques of the empirical level. The result conceives of textual comprehension and communicative task as possible didactic procedures for the achievement of the intended communicative purposes, based on the implementation of the curricular strategy of English. It is concluded that the strategy reveals itself as the core of the communicative process, based on the conception of the text as the axis of the language activity, either as a product or as a process and the communicative task as a unit of the learning activity.