Selecting OERs in English for General Purposes at UCO

During its first phase, this module was tested with one University lecturer whose language of instruction is English for General Purposes on a university level. This teacher learned on the module’s three sections and the two operative tools online via videconference for a period of three hours. In relation to the first section of the module, this lecturer was already very well informed about the existing literature and had a higher command of the different features that comprise a given language teaching scenario. So not much information was actually provided about this section. Regarding Section 2, the two operative tools were presented to the lecturer and explained mostly theoretically. Section 3 was presented in a more hands-on fashion and in this moment the lecturer could select a given OER of her choice and assess its appropriateness and quality to be implemented in a specific teaching context of her choice.

During its second phase, the OER identified as having a high degree of quality was tested by the lecturer participating in the module in her own teaching context. She reported the following: the number of students was 15 and the OER selected was introduced in an online learning scenarios; she reported that the linguistic skill the OER catered for was writing and that linguistic level needed was C1. This lecturer carried out a communicative approach and the lesson was highly task-oriented, the students’ profile was mostly homogeneous since all students shared Spanish as their mother tongue. Students liked the experience and the lecturer did not mention any particular shortcomings about the OER or the tools implemented.