Email this article Principles of designing bespoke corporate foreign language courses
- Authors: Potapova E.N.1
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- LLC “Education Technologies – 21st CENTURY”
- Issue: Vol 26, No 192 (2021)
- Pages: 44-57
- Section: THEORY AND METHODS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/1810-0201/article/view/298384
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2021-26-192-44-57
- ID: 298384
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We define methodic principles of designing corporate language learning programmes thoroughly considering needs and possibilities of corporate language learners. These principles are based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical fundamentals of teaching corporate students and foreign language teaching and aimed at increasing efficiency of corporate language courses. They are defined as follows: 1) basing teaching aims on learners’ needs and language teaching standards; 2) applying interdisciplinary approach to selection of language, content and methods; 3) adapting discourse to learners’ professional needs; 4) selecting and arranging language in a logical sequence; 5) applying skills-based approach to selection of learning content and technologies; 6) arranging learning content and materials into modules; 7) integrating various knowledge, skills and learning methods; 8) considering psychological and pedagogical fundamentals of teaching corporate students; 9) considering possible difficulties of corporate language learning context. These principles reflect needs and features of corporate students and can be used by developers of corporate language courses.
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E. N. Potapova
LLC “Education Technologies – 21st CENTURY”
Author for correspondence.
Email: elena_nickolaevna84@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8153-0390
Lecturer of English language
22-1 Marksistskaya St., Moscow 109147, Russian FederationReferences
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