Premium
Commercial Spanish: Instructional Techniques
Author(s) -
Reyes Jose E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1988.tb03122.x
Subject(s) - terminology , foreign language , curriculum , realization (probability) , linkage (software) , order (exchange) , computer science , mathematics education , pedagogy , linguistics , psychology , business , finance , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , philosophy , statistics
Commercial courses, among the most challenging and fastest‐growing phenomena in language curriculum, have evolved from the realization of American business that to gain foreign markets one must be knowledgeable of foreign languages and foreign cultures. This article describes several successful activities implemented in a six‐credit undergraduate commercial Spanish course at Marywood College. Supplementary materials were developed to provide linkage between practical exercises and simulations in order to improve acquisition of commercial terminology and practices. Examples from a carpeta, a file of original student correspondence, are included and the establishment of a faculty‐monitored translation clinic is addressed.