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An important contribution to developing cross-cultural awareness in the business environment are the web-based "Cultural Interviews with Latin American and Spanish Executives," developed at UT-Austin. This template includes streaming video cultural interviews in the FL with foreign executives, who discuss cultural issues of importance to those preparing to work in the target culture. Vocabulary activities are supplemented with oral communication tasks that help prepare non-native speakers at a variety of proficiency levels. MSU's CIBER and CLEAR will collaborate with UT-Austin's CIBER on Cultural Interviews with Korean Executives.
In its third funding cycle, CLEAR developed an online program called MIMEA, to provide students with video clips of natural, unscripted conversations in various target languages. The clips are accompanied by transcripts, questions pertaining to the language and culture in the clip, language notes explaining any grammatical or dialectal points raised, and culture notes. MIMEA is currently available on CLEAR's website in Arabic, Chinese, German, Korean, and Vietnamese. It can be used both for Independant learning and as an assessment tool, and fills a gap associated with many other forms of assessment, namely, the assessment of pragmatic and socio-cultural knowledge. Based on the success of the current MIMEA project, CLEAR will extend the project to other languages in the upcoming year.
The Portuguese Language Journal (PLJ) is an academic endeavor created to promote and disseminate information about the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language. PLJ also aims to provide a venue to improve the collaboration and exchange of information among Portuguese language teachers.
This Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of Korean, specifically of "business Korean", can find links to selected Internet resources relevant to their study of Korean business and economics. The site is appropriate for use with any "business Korean" textbooks or materials and obviously suits many other purposes as well.
October 2009
Network of Business Language Educators
October 23, 2009
- University of Florida
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University of Florida CIBER announces a new website and online forum for K-12 and college foreign language and business faculty. Members can share ideas, materials, and lesson plans; initiate discussion topics that will help promote the field and build international programs; connect with colleagues interested in tying foreign language to the professions; and learn of funding and professional development opportunities related to business language and languages for the professions. **Visit the site and join the forum at: www.nble.org**
In a time of national and international need for an enlarged pool of learners of key languages around the globe, a strategic effort has been needed to enlarge the number and depth of offerings of the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and their availability to learners across the nation, especially at the post-secondary levels. This requires greater collaborative effort among the nation’s universities in deciding among themselves, with attention to broad national needs, which languages to offer, at what levels, when and where, and what new learning materials are required. These emergent plans then will require the support of funding agencies to achieve those goals. Planning will focus on courses and language-learning materials for on-campus academic year, summer, and distance learning. Without planning and coordination among institutions, we will be left with the small number of LCTL offerings, dictated largely by the market of graduate and heritage student demand and other short-term needs.
This Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of Japanese specifically of "business Japanese", can find links to selected Internet resources relevant to their study of Japanese business and economics. The site is appropriate for use with any "business Japanese " textbooks or materials and obviously suits many other purposes as well.
This Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of Spanish, specifically of "business Spanish", can find links to selected Internet resources relevant to their study of Spanish business and economics. The site is appropriate for use with any "business Spanish" textbooks or materials and obviously suits many other purposes as well.
This Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of German and Germany, specifically of "business German", can find links to all available Internet resources relevant to their study of German business and economics. While the site follows the thematic organization of the textbook/CD-ROM package "German for Business and Economics," it is easily adaptable for use with any other "business German" texts or materials and obviously suits many other purposes as well.
This Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location where students of French specifically of "business French", can find links to selected Internet resources relevant to their study of French business and economics. The site is appropriate for use with any "business French " textbooks or materials and obviously suits many other purposes as well.
An internet supported course on "Survival Hungarian". This course will focus on the language skills and words and expressions in everyday situations. The units bypass complex grammar explanations. Words, phrases and idiomatic expressions are introduced immediately in combination with pronunciation. Students can simply click on any text and hear a native speaker articulate correct sounds. Practice excercises also reinforce words or phrases with immediate sound. The Internet materials provide user friendly support for steady progress
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