Use of Authentic Video Materials in Teaching ESP for Future Civil Engineers

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the role of using the authentic video materials in ESP classes at a higher school for enhancing future civil engineers’ profeprovissional communication in English and improving their English proficiency. The paper clarifies the notion of the “authentic material”, indicates what factors determine the authentic nature, describes the special features of using video materials in ESP classes, determines their possible advantages, disadvantages and main challenges. The research also outlines the criteria of the selection of the video in an ESP class. The author defines the objectives and special features of the pre-viewing, while viewing and post-viewing stages of the work with authentic video materials, offers the typology and complex of tasks used at each stage.