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Thanks for the input. I do have current documents that they need to understand for their jobs. Having just read through several of them, I find that an additional problem is that they are written in - in some cases - rather poor English. I don't know if this falls into the category of "globish" - I ...

Hello, I've just started teaching a class of three engineers who need to understand technical documents in English. Globally, they are all at an upper elementary/lower intermediate level. They actually understand quite a bit of the texts they must read, but stumble often on syntax, unable to relate ...

This comment may be a bit late, but I’ve only just joined the board. I’ve had to deal with this problem as well. In one low-intermediate level class, I got good results by assigning responsibility for each class to two students: one had to present a topic, the other had to lead a question and answer...