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Implementation of Team Teaching in an ESP Program and the Investigation of its Effectiveness on Students of Computer science ESP Vocabulary Achievement

Rahmatollah Soltani and Seyyed Nooraldin Shafaei

Sama Technical and Vocational Training College, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr Branch, Mahshahr, Iran

Abstract

This paper presents an experiment concerning the contribution of team teaching to the better understanding of ESP terminologies. Accordingly, 40 learners majoring in computer science were selected as the participants of this study. Randomly they were divided into two experimental and control groups. While the instructional material was the same for both groups, control group was taught through team teaching. At the end of the experiment, the findings were compared through t-test. Results after the analysis of the data indicated that those who were taught through team teaching gained more ESP vocabulary than those who were taught conventionally.

Introduction

Team teaching as a form of teacher collaboration has long been implemented in education at all levels. Sometimes synonymous with co-teaching or collaborative teaching, it features teachers’ collective efforts that aim to improve teaching quality as well as students’ performances. Many researchers have offered various definitions of team teaching: for example, Davis (1995) regarded team teaching as “all arrangements that include two or more faculty in some level of collaboration in the planning and delivery of a course”. Not surprisingly, being amenable to different interpretations, the label of team teaching has been custom-tailored to suit diverse instructional purposes, functions, subjects, and educational settings.

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Rahmatollah Soltani
Seyyed Nooraldin Shafaei

Sama Technical and Vocational Training College
Islamic Azad University
Mahshahr Branch
Mahshahr
Iran
Corresponding author: rahmatsoltani87@yahoo.com
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