Writing in Transnational Workplaces: Teaching Strategies for Multilingual Engineers

Hodges, Amy; Seawright, Leslie

doi:10.1109/tpc.2019.2930178

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“…In particular, interviewees’ BELF writing repertoires expanded beyond what they used as university students, and their reflections about their university experience indicated that they had not fully understood the rhetorical and communicative nature of workplace communication at that time. Their advice to undergraduate interviewers was consistent about the rhetorical and user-centered nature of communication (Hodges & Seawright, 2019).…”

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“…In this context, we became interested in the writing/communication connections between university and industry. Previous research has focused on perceptions of students/industry regarding rhetorical aspects of communication (Hodges & Seawright, 2019). For this study, we focused on how engineers in Qatar were actually communicating in their workplaces.…”

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“…Engineers in the rich linguistic landscape of Qatar told interviewers that their ability to adapt their writing and communication strategies for different and new audiences was crucial to their early success on the job (Hodges & Seawright, 2019). This ability to listen to, become aware of, and adapt to language context is explained by Leonard’s (2014) term multilingual rhetorical attunement , or a sense for dynamic language use in context, “a common ear for difference and a shared use of negotiation” (p. 243).…”

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Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces

Hodges

Seawright

2023

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students’ linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) in workplace communication. Interviewees’ reflections about their university experience indicate that they had not previously understood the full rhetorical and communicative nature of BELF. We provide implications for instructors who wish to provide methods that center intercultural professional communication and decenter English as a standardized, static language.

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Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces

Hodges

Seawright

2023

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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“…Previous studies (Gallagher & Haan, 2018; Haan et al., 2017) have discussed the benefits of providing professional development opportunities to promote LRI and increase faculty self‐efficacy, and others have discussed the need for more interdisciplinary collaboration (Hodges & Seawright, 2019; Pessoa et al., 2018) or collaboration between content and language teachers (Dafouz & Smit, 2018; Lasagabaster & Doiz, 2018). The applied linguist/writing specialists are often positioned as the “experts” or the ones helping instructors in other disciplines.…”

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Linguistically Responsive Instruction in International Branch Campuses: Beliefs and Practices of Liberal Arts and STEM Instructors

Hillman

2021

TESOL Quarterly

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This study proposes employing linguistically responsive instruction (LRI) in transnational higher education such as international branch campuses (IBCs). It sheds light on the beliefs and practices of content instructors teaching in English-medium IBCs, in terms of supporting students' academic language development. Previous studies have shown how content instructors, particularly in STEM fields, do not see teaching language as part of their role in the classroom and do not attach importance to it. However, students in IBC contexts often need more language support. 101 IBC instructors from various disciplines completed a survey regarding their beliefs about providing language support for students. A purposeful sampling of 6 engineering, science, and liberal arts instructors were also video-recorded teaching their classes and then interviewed about LRI practices using stimulated-recall techniques. Findings show that while STEM instructors tended to align less with LRI than liberal arts instructors on the surveys, they employed multiple LRI practices while observed teaching. The study shows the importance of going beyond just attitudinal surveys when it comes to understanding STEM instructors' dispositions toward teaching language, and it is proposed that IBCs create dialogic, multidisciplinary faculty learning communities on academic language development and meaning making resources.

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“…Step 1: transform the transaction risk feature recognition language given by experts into trapezoidal fuzzy data [31], calculate the fuzzy decision matrix of each transaction risk t ij , and obtain the joint recognition matrix of transaction risk of transnational financial derivatives;…”

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A Risk Feature Recognition Method of Cross-Border Financial Derivatives’ Transaction Based on Fuzzy Support Vector Machine

Xie

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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The traditional identification methods of transaction risk characteristics mostly use the amount of profit and cost to complete the risk assessment. The conflict between the two will lead to low stability. Therefore, the identification method of transaction risk characteristics of transnational financial derivatives is proposed. The fuzzy support vector machine method is used to identify the risk characteristics of cross-border financial derivatives transactions and compensate the errors in the identification process. The possibility index, severity index, and financial risk index of cross-border financial derivatives transaction risk are calculated, and the financial risks are screened and ranked. The distance from risk element to positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution is defined, and the joint identification model of transaction risk of transnational financial derivatives is constructed to realize the identification of transaction risk characteristics. The experimental results show that the designed method has good recognition effect and high recognition performance.

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Writing in Transnational Workplaces: Teaching Strategies for Multilingual Engineers

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces

Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces

Linguistically Responsive Instruction in International Branch Campuses: Beliefs and Practices of Liberal Arts and STEM Instructors

A Risk Feature Recognition Method of Cross-Border Financial Derivatives’ Transaction Based on Fuzzy Support Vector Machine

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