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Regina Morin; Ann Warner-Ault – NECTFL Review, 2025
There exists a dearth of textbooks for teaching medical Spanish and Spanish for law, justice, and human services through a social justice lens. In addition, many texts do not meet the needs of learners with disparate language proficiency levels of Spanish and varying depth and breadth of knowledge about these topics. The literature has identified…
Descriptors: Spanish, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alyssia Miller De Rutté; Diana Galarreta-Aima; Andrea Nate – Hispania, 2024
The all-encompassing term "Medical Spanish" references the Spanish used by healthcare professionals. Medical Spanish courses have gained traction as the Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. continues to grow. Consequently, demand for courses in Medical Spanish and other areas of Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP), a subfield of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Languages for Special Purposes, Health Personnel, Second Language Learning
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Sack, William; Maggin, Sherry; Miller, Zachary F. – Hispania, 2021
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year, undergraduate institution that educates and trains its students (cadets) to become future leaders in the US Army officer corps. The Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) at West Point plays an integral role in developing cadets' cultural and linguistic competencies in preparation for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Military Training, Universities, Languages for Special Purposes
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Belyaeva, Irina G.; Samorodova, Ekaterina A.; Voron, Olga V.; Zakirova, Elena S. – Education Sciences, 2019
One of the most important tasks of higher educational institutions is the training of specialists to be able to adapt to changes in their professional life. At the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the 21st centuries, some methods for developing foreign language competence, needed for their future professional activity, were created by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Kuder, Emily – Hispania, 2021
Using open educational resources (OER) in post-secondary settings has shown to reduce costs for students, advance accessibility and equity, generate motivation, boost enrollment, and improve academic outcomes. This article details innovative coursework and assessment tools for a Spanish for the Professions course designed around OER content…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Open Educational Resources, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Luka, Ineta; Seniut, Irena – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2019
Introduction: Nowadays, language and intercultural competences have become core employability skills in many fields, supporting the development of other skills which emphasizes the necessity for specific pedagogic approaches in developing online learning materials and courses that would develop learners' language competence and other relevant 21st…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Essays, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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González-Lloret, Marta; Nielson, Katharine B. – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The need for foreign language education in the US has increased in recent years, and teaching methods based on traditional textbooks are unlikely to meet the real-world needs of current learners. As a response, interest in Language for Specific Purposes programs has grown and so has Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) methodology. This article…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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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
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Hardin, Karol – Hispania, 2012
Demand for medical Spanish courses has grown with the rising needs of Spanish-speaking patients in the United States, but while there is no shortage of beginning medical Spanish textbooks, very few target the intermediate level. This article examines eighteen medical Spanish texts published in the last twenty years with respect to seven factors:…
Descriptors: Novices, Patients, Textbooks, Spanish
Abe, D.; And Others – 1979
This discussion shows that "authentic documents" are a basic tool for the acquisition of communicative competence in a second language. An authentic document is a sort of photograph of discourse produced at a given time and in a given place. Like a cliche, it has its own existence. Two reasons for choosing authentic documents in second language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Instructional Materials, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Aupecle, Maurice – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Proposes a method of individualizing instruction in scientific or technical fields in an institution of higher learning where the language of instruction is French but the students have varying levels of proficiency in the language. (AM)
Descriptors: Arabic, French, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
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Cummins, Patricia W. – French Review, 1987
Compares the Paris Chamber of Commerce Exams (both certificate and diploma levels) and the ACTFL Guidelines for language proficiency for the benefit of language teachers. Teaching strategies are suggested for preparing students for the Chamber of Commerce exams. (LMO)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Business Education, French, Higher Education
Zierer, Ernesto – 1974
This monograph discusses the problem of the language barrier in scientific and technological development in terms of several parameters describing the flow of scientific information from one language to another. The numerical values of the language barrier parameters of the model are calculated in the field of information on second language…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Higher Education, Information Needs, Interpreters
Wilkins, David – 1976
This paper discusses the theory and practice of the notional syllabus, three specific problems arising from it, and an experimental course proposed as one way of implementing it. Basically, a notional syllabus aims to organize language teaching in terms of the purposes of communication. Its foundation is a system of notional categories and the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conceptual Schemes
Hendrickson, James M. – 1986
A functional approach to language teaching begins with knowing how students intend to use the foreign language for specific purposes and in specific situations. Instructors of medical Spanish can begin by determining the specific language functions that their students must be able to express when communicating with Hispanic patients, by means of a…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Cultural Awareness
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