Education, Training and Informatics Go Hand in Hand in (Foreign) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) – Case Studies From Live and Online Classrooms

• Published in: Journal of systemics, cybernetics and informatics Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 21 - 29
• Main Author: Nikolarea, Ekaterini
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2025
• ISSN: 1690-4524; 1690-4524
• DOI: 10.54808/JSCI.23.03.21

Training and Informatics go hand in hand in (Foreign) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by presenting (1) the needs of non-native (or foreign) English students of ESP and EAP classrooms; and (2) how these needs are fulfilled with students' training in how to use the Internet to: (a) do research required in their regular and ESP/EAP classes; (b) search for and find the appropriate terminology; and (c) to get some crucial aid from engines of machine translation in order to write an essay in English as a requirement in their EAP classes. It also discusses how general English (ELT) online classes (e-learning) have helped a wider public (i.e. students, administrative staff and staff of Hospitality Industry) to use English orally and in writing and, thus, obtaining FCE(B2) and Proficiency (C2) in English, important certificates for their career development in Greece and Europe. What is presented is taken either from the 24-year teaching ESP/EAP experience of the author of this paper or from her one and half years of ELT online teaching experience and observations at the University of the Aegean (Lesvos, Greece). ESP: English for Specific Purposes / EAP: English for Academic Purposes / ELT: English Language Teaching.