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Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development
Mary K (Ed) Long
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Description for Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development
Paperback. With research-based articles, this volume is suitable to high school and university language and culture educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language. Editor(s): Long, Mary K. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 black & white halftones, 2 recorded music items, 2 graphs, 28 tables, 2 b&w photos, 2 c. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those ... Read more
In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781626164192
SKU
V9781626164192
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About Mary K (Ed) Long
Mary K. Long is Senior Instructor and Director of the Spanish for the Professions program at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research areas include twentieth and twenty-first-century Mexican literature and culture and cross-cultural communication between Latin America and the US. She has also presented and written about Spanish for the Professions and LSP.
Reviews for Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development
With this volume Mary K. Long highlights the complexities that exist within LSP studies, and she does this with a broad audience in mind. For those contemplating the inclusion of LSP courses into the curriculum, this essay collection will serve as a great starting point for conversation.
Hispania Well illustrated and bolstered with useful appendices that ... Read more
Hispania Well illustrated and bolstered with useful appendices that ... Read more