SEEU Review vol. 6 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

Elena Spirovska, MSc.; Hajrulla Hajrullai; Luiza Zeqiri, MA.; Serdal Xhemali; VeronikaKareva, MSc.; Artan Limani, MA.academic staff who believe that most of the students will not need English intheir careers or every day life situations as well as their future academiccareers and content subject learning. The notion of a language course whichprovides more than language skills only is also new. The traditional viewthat language courses provide language skills only is still widespread anddeeply rooted in both students’ and University academic staff views onlanguage teaching and learning. The main belief is that students learnlanguage and language only during language classes and that outside thesetting of a language class, the skills learned are useless and not applicable.However, the research done within the framework of this project proves thatstudents perceive English courses otherwise. In fact, the research, as well asthe literature review, proves that language courses develop students’language and academic skills, therefore adding to the students’ qualities interms of their academic work as well as their successful completion ofcontent area subjects. The language courses improve their writing ability,ability to develop and deliver successful presentations, to state theirarguments clearly and to read and analyze critically.Literature ReviewIt is difficult to define and to list academic skills and professional skillsinvolved in one language course. Academic skills often include autonomouslearning, critical thinking and critical reading, effective communication(presentations) effective written communications (paragraph writing, essaywriting), developing arguments and speaking persuasively (debating), abilityto summarize and paraphrase, note taking and a number of other skills. Theprofessional skills include CV writing, successful job interviews Presentlylanguage teaching and language learning focuses more on learner-centeredmethods and increasing learner autonomy and instruction in academic skillspromotes language learning autonomy and independent learning, as well asproducing successful and accomplished professionals.Presentations in ELT contextEFL instructors teach presentation techniques to the students of upperlevels of English proficiency in order to help them develop the skills neededto deliver successful academic presentations on a given or a chosen topic interms of using audiovisual aids successfully, strategies of speaking and176