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Engineering English for Engineers - Technical Language Books
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Below is a list of good English Books and educational
material regarding this subject. We have added a
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One book which seems to be widely used is:
- English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering by Eric H. Glendinning
and Norman Glendinning (ISBN 0 19 457392 3) Answer book
with teaching notes (ISBN 0 19 457393 1) - Oxford
University Press.
The level is intermediate. It is good for improving students'
reading, writing, speaking and understanding skills. Strengths
of the book are that it uses grammar to help students explain
technical processes and that it is definitely relevant for
those in the engineering fields. Weaknesses include a lack
of interesting variety of activities and exercises.
Other books:
- English for electronics .
( Same series as the previous one). There exist other titles
such as English for physical science, for biology, etc.
- Basic Technical English by Jeremy Comfort, Steve Hick
and Allan Savage (Published by Oxford University Press -
Also a Teacher's Book)
The level is lower intermediate or even lower but lots of
diagrams and ta les to fill in and explain
-Engineering by Tony Dudley-Evans, Tim Smart and John Wall,
published by Longman (Nucleus Series).
There's also a teacher's book and a cassette for listening
comprehension.
- SCITECH in the Tapestry series, by Heinle and Heinle.
A few chapters deal with technology.
- An Introduction to Technical English by Thorn & Badrick,
from Prentice Hall Phoenix ELT(ISBN 0-13-497769-6).
This contains structures and vocabulary used for common
technological products in passages accompanied by reading
and writing exercises.
- Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative
Speakers of English (Int'l edition, 2nd edition) Huckin
& Olsen, McGraw-Hill, 1991.
An excellent book with 750 pages of good content.
- ESP Ideas: Recipes for Teaching Academic and Professional
English by Randall Holme, published by Longman (Pilgrims
Longman Resource Books), 1996.
There are a lot of original ideas in this book.
- ESL Resource Book for Engineers and Scientists by Elaine Campbell.
- Writing Up Research, Experimental Research Report Writing
for Students of English, by Robert Weissberg and Suzanne
Buker, Prentice Hall Regents. (ISBN 0-13-970831-6)
- Academic Writing for Graduate Students, A Course for Nonnative
Speakers of English, by John M. Swales & Christine
B. Feak, U. of Michigan Press (ISBN 0-472-08263-9)
- Technical English for Industry, by Yates and Fitzpatrick,
Longman. More complicated and general, some interesting
exercises.
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