工学分野における科学技術英語ライティング教育の実施と課題

抄録

Recent globalization has increased the importance of English education in Japan. Research universities, including Nagoya University, need to publish a large number of papers on international journals to earn higher reputation. The author has organized lectures and seminars to provide the opportunities to learn the technical English writing skills needed by students and faculty members in the engineering departments. This paper introduces the contents of the lectures and seminars, and the analytic results from a survey conducted. The results indicated that many Japanese engineering researchers are not able to release English papers without the support of proof readers. It is the conclusion of this paper that there is a strong need among engineering majors for skills on judging “proper English sentences” that clearly portray the intended meaning.