ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY PROF.

KAMAL
BHATTACHARYYA, DEPT. OF APPLIED SCIENCES (ENGLISH) JIET
GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
 REDUNDANCIES

• Redundancies are words that are of same meaning put

together unwittingly by the writer. Few examples:-
• In my opinion………..write I

• Collaborated together……….Write collaborate

• Future plan………….write plan

• Past experience……..write experience

• Repeat again………..write repeat

• Revert back…………write revert

• New innovation……..write innovation

The Difference between Conventional English and
EST

• The beauty of EST lies in its clarity, not the words or phrases.

• Conventional English is free from any format

• EST follows certain guidelines.

• A writer of conventional English does not require to ponder upon his/her

reader

• An EST writer must think upon his/her reader and will accordingly choose the
words
 RESTRICTIONS

EST CONVENTIONAL
• Format • Free from formatting

• No Jargons • Use Idioms

• No Redundancies • Flowery words

• Be careful about Fog Index • Descriptive

• No rosy/flowery words • Psychological

• No vague words like may, possibly. • Ambiguous
• No ambiguity.
 The Ten Commandments

• 1. EST must not to be abstract 8. Clause must not be

• 2. It should be included perfectly matched words. Broken by commas

• 3. Rules about numerical writing must be followed 9. Numeric up to ten

• 4. Sentences must be succinct. Must be written in language

• 5. The Fog Index must be measured 10. More than ten must be

• 6. Avoid jargons written in numeral.

• 7. Should not be out of focus

 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
English has constantly
evolved as the main
means of communication
in the engineering field
and finally gained a huge
advantage over other
languages (Rao, 2014).
Widdowson and J.P.B. Allen edited
and contributed to an important set
of materials for EST under the title
English in Focus (OUP), and it is
from the perspectives of material
preparation as well as theoretical
exploration of the relation between
language and pedagogic science
and technology.
EST is concerned with both the
oral and written discourse of
English for academic or
professional, occupational or
vocational purposes. It mainly
deals with learners at the
tertiary level for whom the
learning of English takes on a
service role for their specific
needs in study, work or research
(Rao, 2014).
 BEWARE OF THE WORDS
Inexperienced writer is often prompted to use words of general meaning
in a flowery way

DO NOT WRITE WRITE

• Conflagration • Fire
• Vehicle • Car
• Hectic (colour)
• Red
• Usage of Passive Voice
• Usage of Active Voice
• Do not use words which are not in vogue
in a particular country—use faucet for tap, • Use Petrol, chocolate, tap for British
candy for chocolate for American readers. readers
• For Date neither write in DDMMYYYY • Write date as 20 July 2020
format nor in MMDDYYYY format
 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• 1. What are the problems faced by the

professionals in writing scientific
articles?
• 2. What are needs of the professionals
in implementing the rhetorical
functions in writing scientific articles
in the field of science and technology?
 METHODOLOGY
NEEDS ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW
 FINDINGS OF THE PROBLEMS
NEEDS ANALYSIS
• Due to unawareness of the nature of the
scientific discourse by the professionals
they tend to complicate and throw out
mixture and entangled information which
becomes difficult for others to comprehend.
• Writing is the major problematic area as
many face problems when it comes to the
skill of infusing the technical language to
layman’s language and making it readable
for all in field as well outside the field.
INTERVIEW
• “…..I am facing problems with my
juniors and other Arab national IT
staffs as there is Communication Gap,
vocabulary problems and problems in
framing sentences”. “I try to explain
and make them understand the jobs to
execute and implement, still I’m
managing the things successfully by
adjusting and communicating with
them in their language”.
 FINDINGS OF THE NEEDS

NEEDS ANALYSIS INTERVIEW

• “Language proficiency is very important
• The findings highlight that there is a need
to do the IT jobs efficiently, especially to
for implementation of the rhetorical learn, understand and implement new
functions in a scientific discourse as it technologies around”.
complements the universality of the • He added “Yes, online magazines are
scientific discourse. important because my work sometimes
require me to read latest articles on the
• Remache (2013) highlights that launch of new electronic gadgets about
“Scientific English differs from General their features like RAM, USB etc. and we
read articles online which are sometimes
English in its avoiding of its general
published by the user or the authority
descriptions which are full of figures but should be written properly, you see”.
of speech”.
GENRE-SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES IN ONLINE MAGAZINES
TEACHING MODULE

The module called “Functional

English for EST” is recommended
whose focus is lexical features for
rhetorical functions in writing Scientific
articles which will equip professionals
and students with the lexical features for
each rhetorical function and its
applications which will help them
produce quality piece of text.
THANK YOU!