Description:
| Aims: A course to revive, develop and consolidate foreign language skills in order to enable students to start operating in the sphere of business and management with a level of confidence.
Learning Outcomes: Students should be able to:
* use the target language in a variety of business situations;
* discuss business related topics;
* use interviewing skills;
* write business correspondence in predictable business scenarios;
* use telephone skills confidently in a business context;
* break down texts from business related context accurately and answer questions.
Skills: Speaking, reading, listening and writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.
Content: Intensive language work using all 4 skills. This unit concentrates mainly on the practical language necessary for doing business, for example telephone skills, job applications and interview practice. Teaching materials integrate a variety of forms of language through the exploitation of foreign language television broadcasts, audio-visual materials and texts. Overall fluency and grammatical accuracy are practised throughout.
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