Teaching Materials for the Business Language Class

• Author: Armasar P.
• Position: Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 201-206

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşo v

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 11 (60) No. 2 - 2018

TEACHING MATERIALS FOR THE BUSINESS

LANGUAGE CLASS

Ioana - Paula ARMĂSAR1

Abstract: At the level of the pedagogical design of the foreign language

class, after having identified the objectives and the teaching strategies, after

having analysed the students’ interests and needs, teachers have to solve the

difficult task of selecting the teaching materials and deciding on the

technical means which can enhance the efficiency of the teaching/ learning

activity. The specialized language of business involves a lot of challenges for

foreign language teachers, who are trained as philologists.

One of these great challenges is represented by the selection of the teaching

materials, which should meet the needs of future specialists, with very

diverse interests and numerous and different information needs. The way in

which teachers set objectives, choose strategies and find the best means to

attain the objectives by selecting and devising teaching materials is a proof

of their professional attachment to the subject taught, of the respect

towards their students and towards themselves.

Keywords: linguistic competences, selection, representativeness, decision-

making, self-development, teaching materials

1. Competences, objectives, desiderata

Within the foreign language classes organized in the higher education for economists

at intermediate or advanced level, foreign language teachers aim at certain educational

objectives, which are connected to the desideratum of a harmo nious intellectual and

affective development of the future specialists. The three directions they follow focus on

cognitive, applied practical and communication compet ences, each of them based on

knowledge, skills and linguistic habits.

Knowing the language in depth, understanding its grammar system and t he different

shades of meaning for given phrases and idioms, t he connotation and denotation of

words, all these are connected to the cognitive competences. The applied practical

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, armasar@unitbv.ro