At the confluence of philology and economy, foreign languages for business are a more and more interesting domain for the European economic agents, aware of the value of multilingual competences. Tourism is a priority domain of the economy, and within international tourism, foreign languages are...

Custom sets that teaching foreign languages refers to teaching and learning a language taken in isolation, within an essentially monolingual framework. Academic orthodoxy Chardenet (2007) refers to training the teacher in one foreign language only, following the unnatural preoccupation for the...

The Framework of reference for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures (CARAP), developed in 2007 under Michel Candelierâ€(tm)s coordination is an imperative instrument for all the teachers and decision makers preoccupied with the didactic stances of plurilinguism. Much less known...

Sur l'un des plus grands marchés uniques mondiaux, celui de l'Union européenne, les entreprises doivent se doter d'instruments capables de leur assurer la survie et la performance. Négligées pendant une longue période dans les milieux économiques, les com

General language features of the written press. The study emphasizes the main features of the language used in the contemporary written press, regarding also the evolution of the journalistic language. The study case is based on the way that the language

Porquier (1984) defines the exolingual communication as the communication between individuals who do not share a common language, in opposition to endolingual communication, which is the communication between individuals sharing the same native language. Calling in this opposition, our paper...

The present paper presents a few aspects reflecting the difficulties that Italian businessmen face when adapting to the Romanian social and cultural environment or when leading Romanian working groups and their reaction towards working with Italian managers. The differences of mentality and both...

Writing is one of the central pillars of language learning and should be of major interest and concern to teachers, students and researchers. This paper is intended to be a plea for writing and explores issues regarding instruction and evaluation of writing skills of nonnative speaker students....

La dynamique de la société actuelle privilégie la libre circulation des personnes et de l'information. L'Europe, sans les frontières physiques qui séparaient autrefois les peuples, fournit le sentiment naturel d'un espace global, aujourd'hui violemment frappé par la crise économique. Dans...

In this paper we have looked at the difference between teaching language structure and teaching vocabulary. We have discussed how counts of frequency alone are not enough to determine what words should be taught. We have seen that knowing a word means more than just knowing its meaning. Even...