"Professional Contexts for Modern Languages": Work Experience and Academic Reflection in a Multilingual Context

Autor/in	Gomez-Cash, Olga
Titel	"Professional Contexts for Modern Languages": Work Experience and Academic Reflection in a Multilingual Context
Quelle	(2016), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Modern Languages; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Cultural Awareness; Summative Evaluation; Student Attitudes; Student Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Departments; Employment Potential; College Faculty; Business Communication; Work Environment; Student Unions; Employers; Peer Relationship; Work Experience; Multilingualism; Student Placement; College Students; Program Descriptions; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gegenwartssprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Schülerverhalten; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Ausland; Department; Abteilung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Fakultät; Unternehmenskommunikation; Arbeitsmilieu; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Peer-Beziehungen; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Schülerpraktikum; Collegestudent; Großbritannien
Abstract	In the second year module "Professional Contexts for Modern Languages" at Lancaster University, students take 20-25 hour placements, and using a multimodal forum, they articulate their challenges, development and understanding of the varying contexts in which they are working. In summative assessment, students across languages and types of activity communicate and learn from each other so as to foster a broad, cross cultural understanding of language-based professional and business contexts (mainly in educational, digital marketing and translation sectors both in the UK and abroad). The module establishes a mutually productive engagement between a university languages department, faculty employability and central careers staff, the Lancaster University Students Union (that source teaching placements) and local and European employers. Inspired by a vision of modern languages degrees as fostering a global mind-set and cultural intelligence, the course allows us to rethink language learning within a framework of skills for employability. A short list of references and links is included. [For the complete volume, "Employability for Languages: A Handbook," see ED566902.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01