Vocational Foreign Language Teaching for Business Life: A Document Analysis

Abstract

In today’s world, globalization and scientific and technological advancements led many professions to adopt an intercultural structure on the international stage. To be efficient and successful in business life, it is now necessary to have a strong command of international jargon, as well as knowledge and experience in the relevant profession. To survive business life, where the competition increases day by day, it became a necessity to keep up with professional developments at a global scale and to adapt to innovations and changes. Proficiency in a vocational foreign language is considered an important requirement to achieve these goals. A textbook, which was prepared for teaching French as a vocational foreign language for A1/A2 beginner level by following the standards in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, was examined in the present study by using the document analysis technique. The chapters and the tasks, activities, and practices that comprise these chapters were identified. Moreover, their contributions to improving both linguistic and communicative skills in professional fields were revealed. Finally, suggestions were made on how the results obtained from this study could be integrated into different stages of educational institutions.

Keywords

• Vocational foreign language teaching
• communicative skills
• business life

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