21st century skills in focus - Virtual LSP workshop an award-winning programme of the Budapest Business School Agnes Pal

Measuring language knowlegde at job interwievs Practice-oriented language evaluation – often on very first phone conversation Personal interwiev (partly) on target language Case study Group task Written test (professional content) Situation task Petra Polgár (brand manager, Randstad Hungary), Dream jobs for true talents, conference Increasing employability by the means of teaching languages for specific purposes, Budapest, 31th of March 2014

Increasing employability by means of teaching languages for specific purposes, Conference, Budapest, 31th of March 2014Conference Trends Students’ and employers visions about language teaching at universities Good practices  International exchange programmes  "Just-in-Time" teaching method  Using a mini-corpus: text analysis worksheet  Using Case Studies in ESP (Monika Hrebackova, Masaryk Institute, Czech Technical University, Prague)  Teaching and testing incorporated in various courses (Louisa Hendriks- Liu, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Hospitality Business School, The Netherlands )  Introducing CLIL to Higher Education Polytechnic Institutes in Portugal (Margarida Morgado, Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute)

21st century skills in focus - Virtual LSP workshop: an award-winning programme of the Budapest Business School

I. Our school II. Context of the project: the award-winning programme III. Presentation of Virtual LSP workshop

I. Budapest Business School 3 colleges in Budapest College of Finance and Accountancy College of International Management and Business College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism (CCCT)

College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism

CCCT academic programmes BA commerce and marketing (also in English and German) tourism and catering (also in English and German) MA teacher of economics tourism management (also in English) Short-cycle professional courses tourism manager marketing manager catering manager

CCCT Department of Languages for Specific Purposes Languages for Specific Purposes tourism and catering commerce and marketing Specific courses for skill development 6 languages English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian 40 teachers

II. Context of the project: the award-winning 21st century skills in focus programme 1) Intercultural communication training 2) Special course for developing oral skills in English 3) Carrier-planning course 4) Virtual LSP workshop

1) Intercultural communication training create circumstances that enable students to communicate with foreign students who learn the same language (personally / on skype / in written focus on tasks that raise cultural awareness

2) Special course for developing oral skills in English give listening comprehension tasks encourage students to create listening comprehension tasks for other members of the group

3) Carrier-planning Course Prepare and simulate job interviews Invite native speakers with relevant professional background

4) Virtual LSP workshop 1) Virtual learning environment 2) Tasks (homeworks) related to the curriculum 3) Real-life tasks: forums (eg. Tripadvisor) 4) Involving Erasmus students (class presence and telecollaboration)

Virtual LSP workshop – creative use of class wikis Example Example of class wikis Main project activities: „Estudiantes en Hungría” (recommendations for Spanish students – examples: 1 2 3)123 Virtual travel planning to Spain (examples: a, b, group presentation, c)a bc

→ create circumstances that enable students to communicate with native students & with foreign students who learn the same language (personally / on skype / in written)

invite students to reflect on their individual learning paths („carpetas personales”)carpetas personales make students correct each other’s errorscorrect make students create a web page for illustrating a newspaper or online article of professional content (other example)web page other example give listening comprehension tasks (TedEd)TedEd make students test different online dictionaries and grammar practise sitestest encourage students’ own initiatives (example 1, Video) 1Video

Motivation teacher local students foreign students

Impact

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