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Direct linkMontero-Martínez, Silvia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
To respond to the needs of the language industry, further specialisation in terminology at Master's level is needed to equip students with the necessary skills to work as corporate and institutional terminologists. For this purpose, curricular design should envisage the general and specific competences identified by practising terminologists in…
Descriptors: Translation, Masters Programs, Curriculum Design, Competency Based Education
Download full textAuffret, Katja; Sens, Aloisia – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The technical institutions Institut Mines Télécom in Albi, France (IMT) and Trier University for Applied Sciences at the Environmental Campus of Birkenfeld, Germany (UCB) have been running Virtual Exchange (VE) projects since 2013. These projects allow the French and German students to use the vocabulary learned in class in a real context and to…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Program Descriptions, Case Studies, International Educational Exchange
Lee, Jieun; Huh, Jiun – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Because of the globalisation of business transactions and trade, the demand for translation and interpreting (T&I) services has continued to grow in South Korea. A 20-week-long Business Interpreting and Translation (BIT) Certificate Program was designed to teach basic T&I skills to people who were interested in acquiring such skills for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Processing, Translation, Online Courses
Yassine-Diab, Nadia; Alazard-Guiu, Charlotte; Loiseau, Mathieu; Sorin, Laurent; Orliac, Charlotte – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In a design-based research approach (Barab & Squire, 2004), we are currently developing the first prototype of a collaborative Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) website. It focuses on technical vocabulary to help students master any field of LSP better. "Check Your Smile" is a platform aggregating various types of gameplays for…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Languages for Special Purposes, Web Sites, Educational Trends
Hardin, Karol – Hispania, 2015
The US health care system faces linguistic challenges. Disparities in language-concordant care for Spanish speakers persist due to current demographics and a paucity of bilingual providers. A proliferation of courses in Spanish for health care professions suggests that universities and post-graduate institutions are attempting to meet this need;…
Descriptors: Spanish, Medical Education, Educational Quality, Second Language Learning
Sobolev, Olga – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper assesses the efficiency of the "Language Immersion e-Course" developed at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Language Centre. The new self-study revision e-course, promoting students' proficiency in spoken and aural Russian through autonomous learning, is based on the Michel Thomas method, and is…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Online Courses, Immersion Programs, Russian
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Colwell O'Callaghan, Veronica – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on two small-scale international projects, both outcomes of a teaching staff exchange, which seek to exploit the potential afforded by new technologies to enrich L2 learning conditions and learners' experience of using the L2 (in this case English) as a lingua franca. Two undergraduate courses, one for professional and one for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Videoconferencing, Feedback (Response), Questionnaires
Gonzales, Steven – 1974
The report contains a description of a Spanish language training project for cadets and officers in the Albuquerque Police Department and recommendations for similar projects. The purpose of the project was to improve communication between policemen and non-English speaking residents. Cadets were required to take an introductory class while…
Descriptors: Career Development, Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Language Programs
Straight, H. Stephen, Ed. – 1994
The papers in this special issue provide both a general overview and detailed discussion of specific examples of the languages across the curriculum (LAC) movement that is currently gaining momentum in colleges and universities in the United States. Papers include: (1) "International Students as Resource Specialists: Binghamton's Languages…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational Strategies, Foreign Students
Wales, M. L. – 1993
A discussion of the content of workplace English programs for limited-English-speaking immigrants to Australia focuses on the proportions of general and work-specific course content in those programs. It draws, in part, on results of a 1989 study of one workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program. It is proposed that reasons for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Andersen, Linda; Lange, Irene – 1990
A California State University (Fullerton) program brings together faculty in business administration, economics, and foreign languages in an interdisciplinary effort to internationalize the business curriculum. The program has attracted a rapidly enlarging student following, with Spanish the largest language concentration and Japanese the fastest…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Case Studies, Degree Requirements
Born, Warren C., Comp.; Buck, Kathryn, Comp. – 1978
This report presents the results of a survey of innovative foreign language curricula in U.S. colleges and universities undertaken in 1974-75 by the Modern Language Association. The survey results published comprise three sections: (1) seventy-seven detailed curriculum reports including topics that are career-related, community-related,…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Curriculum, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions
