Coping with the Knowledge Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach of Teaching English in a Technical University

The present-day Digital Age with its fast-developing knowledge society calls for an interdisciplinary approach of teaching a foreign language in a technical university. To cope with the knowledge society, teaching a foreign language for specific technical domains requires a new syllabus approach meant to enhance motivation to learn and improve the students’ language level. Developing the engineering students’ literary competence in analyzing and debating on literary and non-literary texts, in arguing for or against certain theories and ideas pertaining to literature, science and technology generates motivation to make linguistic progress and brush up on the foreign language.