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Abstract

21 Technical communication is an extremely important soft skill for civil engineers at the workplace. 22 Due to globalization trends this technical communication often should be performed in English. If 23 we join the fact that undergraduate engineering programs in Spain have been taught exclusively in 24 Spanish, with which in addition, in rare cases those programs provide intentionally placed 25 discipline-specific technical communication experiences, this all amounts to a major problem, 26 regarded as an obstacle that limit undergraduates’ opportunities to work abroad. Aware of this 27 problem, some schools provide their students with a brief course on “Technical English”. 28 However, this course does not cover all the skills that the student would need in the labour market, 29 such as speaking and listening abilities. 30

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