Teaching English Reported Speech to Engineering Students

Irina-Ana Drobot^1,

¹Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

Cite this paper:
Irina-Ana Drobot. Teaching English Reported Speech to Engineering Students. American Journal of Educational Research. 2015; 3(6):749-752. doi: 10.12691/education-3-6-13

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to underscore some common difficulties that Romanian engineering students face in learning English reported speech. The paper will consider situations in which students will need both to use and to understand reported speech, and will also suggest teaching activities that can help to improve students’ communications skills.

Keywords:
ESP ELT tenses visualization activities

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