DEVELOPING LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN ENGLISH FOR GRAPHIC ENGINEERING AND DESIGN

When teaching English for Graphic Engineering and Design at the tertiary level, it is important to train students to follow professional lectures and presentations and grasp this speech genre. English language classes could be organised to develop this significant skill through systematic training, which includes both the preparation phase, crucial for the activity's success, and the active listening phase. Competence differentiates each phase by adopting and mastering specific strategies. The most crucial method involves anticipating the presentation's topic and key terms, while the next step involves listening to the presentation. The process includes the following steps: a. anticipating the content; b. separating relevant from irrelevant data; c. tolerating ambiguity in the listening data; d. mentally summarising the presented data; e. drawing conclusions about unknown facts based on context; and f. elaborating and connecting previous knowledge with new information. With competent instruction from the teacher and his guidance through the entire process of acquiring and mastering the skills of understanding lectures and presentations in English for Graphic Engineering and Design, the listed strategies can help students gain competence in this field of specific professional knowledge and advance their professional and academic careers.