Language Teaching Resources and Quality Assurance in Higher Technical Education

In the light of the new paradigm for the study of languages, teaching resources play a key role in ensuring the quality of the didactic process since they facilitate the learning of languages and also streamline and develop communicative competence, comprehension and evaluation of applied language pedagogy. The aim of the present study is to raise awareness of the quality and features of the teaching/learning resources that can be used effectively in the study of English in technical higher education. The research is a comparative study between two Romanian prestigious technical universities: University "Politehnica" of Timisoara and University "Politehnica" of Bucharest and << Nicolae Cioranescu >> Technical College in Targoviste. The present study poses some queries related to the characteristics of these resources likely to assure the quality of the language teaching process. Hence, the following variables were identified and proposed: plenty, available, fit for didactic purpose/learning friendly, useful, clearly structured, interesting and original and authentic. A questionnaire was used and data were statistically calculated by means of Lickert Scales and interpreted and expressed as cause-effect relations.