Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses

Download or read book Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses written by Darcy Lear and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses provides foreign and second language teachers with easy and practical additions they can make to their existing curricula to help their students develop real-world professional skills and prepare to use the target language successfully in the workplace. The book is organized into six chapters, each addressing a different professional skill and opening with an explanation of how content typically included in a foreign language curriculum can be tied to this skill. Each chapter closes with class activities or lesson plans that include suggested materials and assessments that teachers can easily add to their language courses. Lear’s book is an accessible and practical guide designed to be adaptable for any language, offering exciting new possibilities to help teachers and students of foreign languages bring their language skills into the workplace.