AATSEEL roundtable: teaching Business language

[Alla Nedashkivska]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to organize the following roundtable or a panel for the 2011
AATSEEL conference:
³Teaching Slavic Languages for Business Purposes [or perhaps, other specific
purposes, if there is not enough interest in Œbusiness¹ in particular]².

The following could be considered:
Methodological trends, approaches and developments in the field of SLA
specifically in contexts of language learning for business/specific
purposes;
Processes of materials design and principles used in teaching Slavic
languages for business/ specific purposes;
Development of linguistic and communicative competence by students learning
language for business settings/specific purposes;
Sociolinguistic and intercultural communication principles as applied to
business interaction;
Acquisition of business ³literacy² along with SLA;
Design of electronic materials; utilization of on-line resources; online
courses.
(other topic that could be of interest: assessment and testing, motivation)


If you are interested, please send me your ideas directly to:

alla.nedashkivska at ualberta.ca
(note that July 1 is the last deadline for submitting proposals)

-- 
Alla Nedashkivska, Associate Professor
Chair of the Language Coordinators¹ Committee
Undergraduate Advisor in Slavic: Russian and Ukrainian

Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, 200 Arts Building
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6
FAX 492-9106
 
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies:
http://www.mlcs.ca
 
Ukrainian Language and Literature Program:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukraina/
 
Summer Travel Course in L'viv, Ukraine:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukraina/study_in_ukraine/ukrainian_through_its_
liv/


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