Autonomous and Collaborative e-Learning in English for Specific Purposes

Abstract

The paper deals with the process of acquiring professional vocabulary and grammar in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in pre-service teacher preparation. The main objective of the research was to (1) discover how much students learn in the ICT-enhanced process of instruction, where autonomous work and collaborative learning are applied so that to build preconcepts and reconstruct misconceptions in ESP; (2) detect the sources students exploited towards acquiring the learning content.