French and Spanish Communication for Caribbean Professionals [microform] : Innovative Foreign Language Course Developments from UTech, Jamaica / Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick
- Bib ID:
- 5678299
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Boufoy-Bastick, Beatrice
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED450602
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 9 p.
- Summary:
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Economic globalization make it increasingly important for Caribbean professionals to be able to communicate effectively in English, French, and Spanish. Accordingly, the University of Technology in Jamaica is developing French and Spanish courses designed to teach culturally appropriate and successful communication for specific professions. The design of these courses is radically different from the traditional university courses in both subject content and teaching methodology in order to accommodate the specific practical communication demands now placed on professionals in the Caribbean. This paper discusses the crucial importance of introducing specific occupational foreign language courses to equip undergraduate students with the fundamental foreign language skills necessary to function competently in linguistically diverse Caribbean work environments. It explains how linguistic competence is achieved by designing foreign language courses, using discipline-oriented lexical registers, content-based simulated situations, and nonconformist communicative contextual foreign language teaching methodology. Two illustrative examples of occupational French or Spanish course development for hotel and tourism management are described, highlighting the practical relevance of their course contents and teaching methodology to hotel and tourism management. (Contains 25 references.) (Author/KFT)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Foreign Language Forum (Cave Hill, Barbados, April 23-25, 2001).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Business Communication
- Communicative Competence (Languages)
- Cultural Awareness
- Foreign Countries
- French
- Higher Education
- Hospitality Occupations
- Intercultural Communication
- Languages for Special Purposes
- Linguistic Competence
- Professional Education
- Second Language Instruction
- Second Language Learning
- Spanish
- Tourism
- Work Environment
- Jamaica
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- ERIC
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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