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Gluchmanová, Marta – Advanced Education, 2023
The purpose of the paper is to point out the possibilities of teaching and learning Slovak as a foreign language. The course Slovak as a foreign language allowed foreign students to overcome problems while studying professional subjects in manufacturing technologies. The goal was the creation of suitable professional study material tailored for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Languages for Special Purposes, Comparative Analysis
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
Brandl, Anel; Rodríguez, Estrella – Hispania, 2020
Educational institutions with world language requirements face increasing student demand to offer Spanish Language for Specific Purposes (SPSP) courses at lower proficiency levels to fulfill language requirements. Language for specific purposes courses are designed to fulfill the communicative needs of students within a specific professional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Heritage Education
Martin, Alexandra; Adrada-Rafael, Sergio – L2 Journal, 2017
The growing demand for Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) courses at universities in the United States in the last two decades (Klee, 2015) has brought to light the need for more theoretically driven research in this field, which can inform pedagogical decisions and materials design. The present study conceptually replicates Serafini and Torres…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Languages for Special Purposes, College Students
Doyle, Michael S. – Hispania, 2017
Business Spanish typically teaches the vocabulary, content, and context of the functional areas of business, and how to conduct business in a cultural setting. But it should do more than just that. Leadership with integrity should be primed and personalized as a signature and integrative core value that frameworks any ensuing learning of the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Business Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Matuszak, Katarzyna; Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Torres, Julio; Serafini, Ellen J. – Hispania, 2016
Scholars of task-based language teaching (TBLT) advocate for the identification of learners' communicative needs to inform syllabus design, particularly in language for specific purposes contexts (e.g., Long 2015). However, little research has applied TBLT principles in designing Spanish for specific purposes curricula. Moreover, despite the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Languages for Special Purposes
Liu, Xin; Hale, Sandra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Courtroom interpreting requires a high level of accuracy due to the strategic use of language in such an institutional setting. It is generally agreed among interpreting scholars that quality interpreting in court should accurately relay both propositional content and illocutionary force of the original utterances. This high standard of accuracy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Court Litigation, Translation, Accuracy

Victor-Rood, Juliette – Unterrichtspraxis, 1983
Gives a syllabus and suggested activities for an evening adult course in survival German for travelers. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Descriptions, German, Languages for Special Purposes
Cruciani, Renee; And Others – 1993
This paper describes the language training courses provided by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) to government employees and their dependents, focusing on the use of experiential language learning and "bridging" classroom study to practical applications. Bridges are an important part of the FSI training program not only because they…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Experiential Learning, Language Skills, Languages for Special Purposes
Cere, Ronald Carl – 1988
Despite a growing trend and early successes, program development for business language courses is still in its early stages. Curriculum developers have much work to do, many decisions to make, and a variety of problems to solve, most important of which are content, approaches, learning systems, and instructional strategies. First, the program type…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
Pilkenton, David – 1991
The development and results of Career Spanish instruction at Mesa State College in Colorado from 1975 to 1991 are described. The class is an individualized, career-oriented class for students who have only 3 to 6 semester hours available for foreign language study and an interest in particular vocational applications of Spanish. With no…
Descriptors: Careers, College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Employment Opportunities
Branan, Elisabeth Girod – 1988
One approach to teaching business French is to familiarize students with true business situations and to help students realize that business interacts with a body of laws and within a political and socioeconomic environment. On the first day of class, students are divided into groups of two or three, and each group becomes an enterprise with a…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions
Cothran, Bettina F. – 1993
This paper discusses the Georgia Institute of Technology's Business German summer language course, an intensive 6-week course that utilizes classroom instruction, language labs, and computer labs. The course stresses vocabulary and discourse as commonly used in the professional context, as well as intercultural information. A major component of…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions

Dowling, Carol; Mitchell, Anita – Modern Language Journal, 1993
A project conducted during the last three years examined an undergraduate foreign language reading course, Technical Japanese, to understand the students' learning process. The course combines science with Japanese and includes note-taking skills as preparation for reading. (Contains 23 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach