A survey and analysis of English use in oversea manufacturing factories from ESP aspects

对在制造工厂工作的日本和外国工程师之间的英语交流进行了一项调查。2004年和2005年，我们采访了美国三家工厂和澳大利亚两家工厂的工程师，并向他们发放了一份调查问卷。美国、英国和澳大利亚的工程师回答了一份基于网络的问卷，其中包含同样的问题。结果显示，在工作沟通任务中，工程师最看重的是“技术指导”，其次是“内部非正式会议”和“与上司或下属面谈”。他们认为“展示”不如这些任务重要。此外，日本工程师认为，与指导和解释情况相比，他们在工作场所抱怨和表扬方面的沟通不够好。这些结果表明，制造工厂不仅需要直截了当的表达，而且还需要间接表达，而日本工程师认为他们不擅长后者。英语公共…2006年对亚洲国家的更多需求进行了调查。在越南的七家制造工厂、泰国的六家工厂和马来西亚的一家工厂工作的日本工程师接受了采访，并收到了一份调查问卷。结果显示，他们对英语的需求根据他们的商业伙伴是否只是日本公司，以及他们的生产过程是劳动密集型还是技术密集型而不同。在泰国和越南，当地工人和日本工程师之间的交流是用日语进行的，制造业的当地语言中有一些英语单词。然而，在工厂的行政和商业部门，英语交流被认为是重要的。日本公司的调查谴责说，几乎没有海外工作经验的工程师表现出对工作场所英语需求的强烈意识，尽管他们在工作中并不经常使用英语。此外，在对人事经理的采访中，他们指出了在海外制造工厂基于真实语篇的英语课程的重要性。较少

A survey of English communication among Japanese and foreign engineers working at manufacturing factories was conducted. Engineers at three factories in U. S. and two in Australia were interviewed and given a questionnaire in 2004 and 2005. A web-based questionnaire with the same questions was answered by engineers in U. S., England and Australia. The results showed that engineers regarded "technical instruction" as the most important followed by "in-house informal meeting" and "interview with the boss or a subordinate" among job communication tasks. They viewed "presentation" as less important than these tasks. Also, Japanese engineers felt that they did not communicate well enough in complaining and praising at workplace, compared to instructing and explaining situations. These results indicate that not only straightforward expressions but also indirect expressions are needed at manufacturing factories, and Japanese engineers feel that they are not good at the latter.English communic … More ation needs in Asian countries were investigated in 2006. Japanese Engineers working at seven manufacturing factories in Vietnam, six in Thailand and one in Malaysia were interviewed and given a questionnaire. The results showed that English needs differed according to whether their business partners were Japanese companies only, and to whether their production processes were labor-intensive or technology-intensive. In Thailand and Vietnam, communication among local workers and Japanese engineers were conducted in Japanese, local languages with some English words at manufacturing sectors. However, English communication was regarded important at administration and business sectors of the factories.The survey at companies in Japan reviled that engineers with little experience of working abroad showed a great awareness of English needs at workplace, even though they did not use English much in their jobs. Also, in interviews with personnel managers, they pointed out the importance of English course based on real discourse at manufacturing factories abroad. Less