On 3/9/19 1:45 pm, David wrote:
Many years ago, if I remember correctly, a professor of engineering at
UNSW made English a compulsory course for students in that Faculty (with
howls of protest!). ...
David Williamson's 1974 play "The Department", is about a university
engineering department and includes discussion of the role of teaching
communication to the students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Department_(play)
For better or worse, English is now also an international lingua franca.
Graduates will likely be working in international teams, using a form of
English, but not Australian English. I have to use American English when
submitting papers to international computing and engineering
conferences, even when these are run in Australia, or Indonesia.
China is scaling up to teach millions of international students in
English, and they will likely use American English.
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2018/12/globalization-of-chinese-education.html
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