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Business Language Studies And Study Abroad In “A Changed World”, Deb S. Reisinger
Business Language Studies And Study Abroad In “A Changed World”, Deb S. Reisinger
Global Business Languages
Postsecondary institutions increasingly focus their efforts on internationalization, but foreign language faculty and language and literature departments are conspicuously absent from the great majority of these discussions (Knight 2006, Gerndt 2012). The emerging field of Business Language Studies (Doyle 2012) offers an important path to participating in these decisions and thus to helping shape the discussions about developing our students’ global and intercultural competencies. The purpose of this article is twofold. On the one hand, we will show how BLS aligns with recent pedagogical trends put forth by national associations (MLA, ACTFL, AAUC), underscoring the importance of showcasing its work …
Experimental Pedagogy In A Course On International Business In French, Marie-Pascale Pieretti
Experimental Pedagogy In A Course On International Business In French, Marie-Pascale Pieretti
Global Business Languages
This article showcases “International Business in French,” a course developed at Drew University, with a special focus on ways in which students use their experience to construct knowledge of the world of business and economics in a variety of Francophone contexts. To illustrate the value experiential pedagogy can add to a business language course, it examines in particular the ways in which a trip to Quebec, the study abroad component embedded in the course, reinforces, challenges, and reveals ambiguities concerning the knowledge acquired in class prior to the trip. In conclusion, it outlines and discusses the challenges such a pedagogy …
Attaining Sustainable Growth Of A Business Chinese Program Through Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Haidan Wang
Attaining Sustainable Growth Of A Business Chinese Program Through Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Haidan Wang
Global Business Languages
This article presents a research project of utilization-focused evaluation of the Business Chinese Program at the University of Hawai‘i for the purposes of ensuring the program’s quality, demonstrating the program’s values to its stakeholders, and providing the reflections associated with it. This article begins with a review of the program, and then details the evaluation processes, featuring four major phases: planning, data-collecting, analysis, and reporting. The discussion of the results of this evaluation is intended to provide a feasible model of business language program evaluation with tangible evidence of both the merits of the program and its accountability to its …
Blindness And Intimacy In Early Twentieth-Century Literature, Maren Linett
Blindness And Intimacy In Early Twentieth-Century Literature, Maren Linett
Department of English Faculty Publications
This essay traces an association between blindness and intimacy in J.M. Synge’s The Well of the Saints, Florence Barclay’s The Rosary, and D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man,” suggesting that the association participates in an early twentieth-century devaluation of vision and stems from beliefs about knowledge and communication.
Assessing The Economic Value Of The Spanish Language, Isabel Dulfano
Assessing The Economic Value Of The Spanish Language, Isabel Dulfano
Global Business Languages
This paper summarizes the field of economics of language since its inception, in order to introduce this interdisciplinary field to the foreign language academic community. The article traces the key areas in economics of language research, specifically tailoring the data available to assess the calculations of value of the Spanish language.
Developing Engineering Internships In France, Lars O. Erickson
Developing Engineering Internships In France, Lars O. Erickson
Global Business Languages
This article provides a rationale for international internships and gives concrete tips on how to develop them. It surveys works extolling the advantages of professional internships and those proving the value of study abroad. Combining these two into international internships is the focus of a growing number of programs. However, little has been said about how to develop international internships for students. The author specifically addresses France as a destination, explaining the process for obtaining visas for students wishing to make an internship in France part of their education. The author provides suggestions for making contact with French companies and …
Differences Between Academic And Business Writing, Félix S. Vásquez
Differences Between Academic And Business Writing, Félix S. Vásquez
Global Business Languages
Most upper-division courses taken by foreign language majors and minors in US colleges and universities involve some form of academic writing. Students who transpose this writing style to the business setting risk being unsuccessful. The purpose of this article is to highlight how these styles of writing differ so that language instructors teaching business courses in departments of modern languages can better prepare students for the needs of the twenty-first-century workplace. Our students need to be taught explicitly the differences and given an opportunity to practice the business style of writing.
How Important Is The Local, Really? A Cross-Institutional Quantitative Assessment Of Frequently Asked Questions In Writing Center Exit Surveys, Pam Bromley, Kara Northway, Eliana Schonberg
How Important Is The Local, Really? A Cross-Institutional Quantitative Assessment Of Frequently Asked Questions In Writing Center Exit Surveys, Pam Bromley, Kara Northway, Eliana Schonberg
The Writing Center Journal
No abstract provided.
Motivational Scaffolding, Politeness, And Writing Center Tutoring, Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle Thompson
Motivational Scaffolding, Politeness, And Writing Center Tutoring, Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle Thompson
The Writing Center Journal
No abstract provided.
Culture: The Basis For Learning Business In A Foreign Language, Michael Hager
Culture: The Basis For Learning Business In A Foreign Language, Michael Hager
Global Business Languages
In this article, we will first review various perspectives on the teaching of culture and what effect this can have on intercultural interaction in language teaching. We then take a look at ways of using culture to teach a foreign language. The first example is how preparing to write a German Lebenslauf can serve as a means to get to know and better understand fellow classmates. In addition, we look at how preparing for a mock job interview can function as the basis for teaching German. Finally, we see that students appreciate and value the use of culture in the …
Using Advertising To Explore French Language And Culture In The Classroom, Elizabeth Martin
Using Advertising To Explore French Language And Culture In The Classroom, Elizabeth Martin
Global Business Languages
It is widely recognized that authentic materials such as advertisements are beneficial to language learners. In addition to stimulating students’ interest and motivation, advertising in the target language exposes students to different styles of expression and offers a window into another culture. This article proposes a more comprehensive approach to integrating commercial advertisements into the foreign language classroom through content-based learning. In an effort to develop its international business curriculum, California State University, San Bernardino has added Introduction to French Advertising to its already strong business course options in French. This article describes the course in detail, including topics of …
Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach To The Teaching Of Business French, Steven J. Sacco, Joseph Hammett
Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach To The Teaching Of Business French, Steven J. Sacco, Joseph Hammett
Global Business Languages
US higher education has focused on the development of new cadres of employees to the near exclusion of entrepreneurship as a career path. In this article, the authors describe an entrepreneurial approach to the teaching of Business French. The senior author served as the course instructor while the junior author was a student who completed the course. To provide an entry into the world of global entrepreneurship, the senior author selected the French translation of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. In parallel with the reading of Rich Dad, students completed a series of entrepreneurial course activities. Selected activities are …
An Inter-Cultural Communication Approach To Teaching Business Korean: A Case Study Of A Mock Negotiation Between Korean And American College Students, Yeonhee Yoon, Kiwoong Yang
An Inter-Cultural Communication Approach To Teaching Business Korean: A Case Study Of A Mock Negotiation Between Korean And American College Students, Yeonhee Yoon, Kiwoong Yang
Global Business Languages
This study demonstrates that inter-cultural negotiators, one of whom is a bi-cultural American well-versed in the other’s culture, realized similar joint gains to intra-cultural Korean negotiators. The conclusion of this study is that bi-culturals, who are aware of the cultural difference and social distance, were able to close social distance and produce joint gains that were similar to the result of intra-cultural negotiation. This study also emphasizes the development of pedagogical methods to increase KFL (Korean as a foreign language) learners’ inter-cultural awareness and overcome cultural prejudices, so that they can foster cultural and linguistic competence in inter-cultural business negotiations.
Standing On The Family Farm In Tysvær: How Did “Kallekodt” Become “Thompson”?—How Is Tysvær Pronounced?, Nina M. Ray
Standing On The Family Farm In Tysvær: How Did “Kallekodt” Become “Thompson”?—How Is Tysvær Pronounced?, Nina M. Ray
Global Business Languages
This article explores the role that language plays in the legacy tourism business, an increasingly important sub-segment of the tourism industry. While seemingly obvious that those traveling to the land of their ancestors may request language help from migration institutions, past research has never asked representatives of migration institutions what help legacy tourists need. Delegates at a recent meeting of the Association of European Migration Institutions participated in a survey about what they perceive to be the most important language needs of their patrons. Most indicated that while some nations, such as Scotland, emphasize that tourists should come learn the …
Web Genres In Intercultural Business Language Research, Tilman Schröder
Web Genres In Intercultural Business Language Research, Tilman Schröder
Global Business Languages
Genre studies on intercultural aspects of business languages traditionally focus on established genres, such as print advertisements or annual reports. Despite the growing importance of Web-based business communication, only a few publications have engaged in contrastive Web genre analysis. This article develops a methodology for carrying out cross-cultural research on Web genres by giving ideas for designing a corpus and for choosing parameters of analysis. It also discusses the potential benefits of intercultural Web genre approaches for researchers, students, and business professionals.
Preparing Business Language Students To Meet Employer Needs, Darcy Lear
Preparing Business Language Students To Meet Employer Needs, Darcy Lear
Global Business Languages
Situated within the growing body of work on languages for specific purposes and community service-learning, this article explores the place of specific professional skills in the business language curriculum. It argues that the integration of explicit curricular content related to professional correspondence (emails, letter of recommendation requests, and cover letter content) will better prepare students for the work place without compromising the rigor of the traditional humanities disciplines.
Shifting The Curriculum To Language For Specific Purposes, Jennifer L. M. Gerndt
Shifting The Curriculum To Language For Specific Purposes, Jennifer L. M. Gerndt
Global Business Languages
As English emerges as the lingua franca of many international corporations worldwide, academic institutions are erroneously retracting funds from language-learning programs, citing the lack of need or the inability to support nonessentials. With this approach, the true needs of language learners have been neglected. The blame can easily be placed on institutions that misunderstand the additional benefits learners garner while pursuing language studies (i.e., culture). However, it can be argued that the blame is actually that of the language educators who fail to arm themselves with the proper ammunition to argue their side properly. The administrators who decide the fate …
Review, Maida Watson
Review, Maida Watson
Global Business Languages
Annie R. Abbott. Comunidades: Más allá del aula. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009. 157 pp.
Gulliver, Travel, And Empire, Claude Rawson
Gulliver, Travel, And Empire, Claude Rawson
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Gulliver, Travel, and Empire" Claude Rawson analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels as a central document of European intellectual history. Rawson focuses on the relationship between ethnicity and human identity and asks what constitutes humanity and how individual groups qualify (or not) for human status. Posing teasingly as a "parody" of travel books, it is both a series of voyages and an ethnically widening arc of moral exploration as Book Four at once expresses an ambivalent perception of the Irish under English rule and extends to what Swift/Gulliver calls "all Savage Nations" and ultimately takes in what Swift …
Cannibalism, Ecocriticism, And Portraying The Journey, Simon C. Estok
Cannibalism, Ecocriticism, And Portraying The Journey, Simon C. Estok
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Cannibalism, Ecocriticism, and Portraying the Journey" Simon C. Estok discusses the ways early modern preoccupation with cannibalism is at once rooted in and reflective of an ecophobic environmental ethics. Looking both at descriptions of metaphoric and literal cannibalism, Estok shows that imagining cannibalism was central to the travel narrative and to its investments in writing the center and the periphery, the human and the nonhuman, the acceptable and the repugnant — binaries which reveal ethical positions, not only toward people, but, more broadly, toward the natural environment. Estok argues that it is relevant to discuss the discourse …
Culture, Constructivism, And Media: Designing A Module On Carlos Slim, Roberto Rey Agudo
Culture, Constructivism, And Media: Designing A Module On Carlos Slim, Roberto Rey Agudo
Global Business Languages
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helú has been a fixture on Forbes’s list of billionaires since 1991, and for the past three years, he has topped the magazine’s list of the world’s richest men. Although he is exceptionally well-known in his native Mexico, the majority of American college students have never heard of Carlos Slim. This article presents a curricular module built around this charismatic and controversial figure. The module requires students to navigate Internet-supported news media in the target language (Spanish), and engages them in independent, small-group, and larger, teacher-led activities designed to foster critical and comparative skills in …
Introduction To New Work About The Journey And Its Portrayals, I-Chun Wang
Introduction To New Work About The Journey And Its Portrayals, I-Chun Wang
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Horizontality And Impossibility In Kafka's Parabolic Quests, Frank W. Stevenson
Horizontality And Impossibility In Kafka's Parabolic Quests, Frank W. Stevenson
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Horizontality and Impossibility in Kafka's Parabolic Quests" Frank W. Stevenson explores a horizontal-parabolic interpretation of several Kafka narratives. The key idea is that the meaning/truth of a parable is being thrown-beside-itself "on the horizontal": thus it is impossible not only to vertically reach any higher meaning/truth but even to "cross-over" to a truth which has now been horizontally "displaced." Noting that Derrida's and Agamben's reading of "Before the Law" — the narrator cannot "enter into the Law" because the latter "prescribes nothing," is nothing but an "opening" — not only excludes any vertical-hierarchical dimension but even any …
Power And Representation In Anglo-American Travel Blogs And Travel Books About China, Stefano Calzati
Power And Representation In Anglo-American Travel Blogs And Travel Books About China, Stefano Calzati
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Power and Representation in Anglo-American Travel Blogs and Travel Books about China" Stefano Calzati presents a comparative analysis between two travel books and two travel blogs written by Anglo-American travellers about China. The assumption is that travel books and travel blogs, being two differently mediated forms of travel writing, share some similarities: they are "autodiegetic narratives" and they bear a (cross)cultural potential. Through a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis I investigate how Anglo-American travel writers represent themselves and Chinese people as to what extent the definition of travel writing is medially affected; 2) to what extent the cross-cultural …
Introduction, Allen G. Wood
Muslim Science As The Source Of The Portuguese Age Of Discoveries, Joseph Abraham Levi
Muslim Science As The Source Of The Portuguese Age Of Discoveries, Joseph Abraham Levi
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Muslim Science as the Source of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries" Joseph Abraham Levi analyses the Jewish, mostly Sephardic, and Islamic contributions to science and their legacy in Iberia, particularly present-day Portugal. Using as a springboard the countless contributions to the sciences brought by Muslims to the Iberian Peninsula, southern France (mainly Provence), Sardinia, Sicily, and the rest of southern Italy, as well as other parts of the Mediterranean, Levi concentrates on the key role that Muslim scholars had, oftentimes assisted by their Sephardic Jewish counterparts, in training the scientific researchers of the then-burgeoning young Portuguese nation, …
China As The Other In Odoric's Itinerarium, Dinu Luca
China As The Other In Odoric's Itinerarium, Dinu Luca
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "China as the Other in Odoric's Itinerarium" Dinu Luca discusses the various ways in which the otherness of China is approached and integrated in the fourteenth-century travel text associated with Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone. Luca explores the multiple ways in which the text can be examined in relation to Odoric, his travels, and his text. Luca takes vision as a unifying trope and explores the meanings it acquires (sight, concept, projection) as Odoric abandons the familiar space of wonder and confronts the otherness of China. Several well-known episodes are discussed and one particular exchange (known …