TEACHING SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY - A CHALLENGE TO THE ALGERIAN TEACHERS

Habib Madani
Additional contact information
Habib Madani: Full time lecturer, PhD, the Department of English, Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret, Algeria

Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy, 2025, vol. 47, issue 2, 332-346

Abstract: Due to globalization, English has become the most demanded and useful language in the world. It is, in fact, the language of science, technology, communication, medicine, media, research, academic meetings, business, and many other fields. In Algeria, this language has been given much priority as the language of knowledge and skill transfer. However, at university level, the teaching of English in the scientific fields is still facing many challenges and obstacles. Many scientific departments still rely on unspecialized EFL (English as Foreign Language) teachers just to fulfil the curriculum requirements. Therefore, this paper tries to shed light on the real needs of the Algerian university for more EFL curricula in the scientific departments. It attempts to highlight the obstacles and difficulties that face EFL teachers in these branches. Therefore, a case study was conducted in the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry in the University of Tiaret. The results revealed that the English language programs in these departments still need to be refined so as to meet the real learning needs of the students and a pre-training for EFL teachers is required.

Keywords: Challenges; Chemistry; EFL teachers; Physics; Scientific English (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://aucpp.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/24.MAD ... sue_2_pp_332-346.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:edt:aucspp:v:47:y:2025:i:2:p:332-346

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18023835

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy is currently edited by Florentina MOGONEA and Alexandrina Mihaela POPESCU

More articles in Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Psychology, Pedagogy from Teacher Training Department, University of Craiova
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dan Valeriu Voinea ().