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TY - CHAP
T1 - Professional contexts for modern languages
T2 - work experience and academic reflection in a multilingual context
AU - Gomez-Cash, Olga Maria
PY - 2016/6/25
Y1 - 2016/6/25
N2 - In the second year module ‘Professional Contexts for Modern Languages’ at Lancaster University, students take 20-25 hour placements, and using a multimodal forum, they articulate their challenges, development and understanding of the varying contexts in which they are working. Insummative assessment, students across languages and types of activity communicate and learn from each other so as to foster a broad, cross cultural understanding of language-based professional and business contexts (mainly in educational, digital marketing and translation sectors both in the UK and abroad). The module establishes a mutually productive engagementbetween a university languages department, faculty employability and central careers staff, the Lancaster University Students Union (that source teaching placements) and local and European employers. Inspired by a vision of modern languages degrees as fostering a global mind-set andcultural intelligence, the course allows us to rethink language learning within a framework of skills for employability.
AB - In the second year module ‘Professional Contexts for Modern Languages’ at Lancaster University, students take 20-25 hour placements, and using a multimodal forum, they articulate their challenges, development and understanding of the varying contexts in which they are working. Insummative assessment, students across languages and types of activity communicate and learn from each other so as to foster a broad, cross cultural understanding of language-based professional and business contexts (mainly in educational, digital marketing and translation sectors both in the UK and abroad). The module establishes a mutually productive engagementbetween a university languages department, faculty employability and central careers staff, the Lancaster University Students Union (that source teaching placements) and local and European employers. Inspired by a vision of modern languages degrees as fostering a global mind-set andcultural intelligence, the course allows us to rethink language learning within a framework of skills for employability.
U2 - 10.14705/rpnet.2016.cbg2016.464
DO - 10.14705/rpnet.2016.cbg2016.464
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SP - 57
EP - 66
BT - Employability for languages
A2 - Corradini, Erika
A2 - Borthwick , Kate
A2 - Gallagher-Brett, Angela
PB - Research-publishing.net
CY - Dublin
ER -