E-LEARNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATION IN EU PROFESSIONS

J. Enrique Agudo, Mercedes Rico, Paula Ferreira, Héctor Sánchez, Patricia Edwards

2010

Abstract

Developing international standards of professional competence over the last few decades has become a key issue for countries worldwide. In this endeavour education is recognized as a crucial element towards reaching goals. Two major competencies are highlighted by today’s experts for job marketability: An operational command of 1- foreign languages, and 2- new technologies. Regarding the first context, this paper addresses the question of practical needs in foreign language competency for selected working collectives, the business sectors of trade and commerce in this case, and aims to create English courses at intermediate /upper-intermediate level, namely B1 and B2, two of the competence standards (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) established in the Council of Europe to the certification of languages for professional purposes. With respect to the latter and second cornerstone on which this proposal is based, technological literacy, an interactive platform for L2 e-learning through Moodle is proposed, as is the development of tools for the teaching-learning process. The target users of this particular proposal consist of individuals with specific foreign language learning and technology-based needs at work in the service sectors of sales and accommodations.

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Enrique Agudo J., Rico M., Ferreira P., Sánchez H. and Edwards P. (2010). E-LEARNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATION IN EU PROFESSIONS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-023-8, pages 485-488. DOI: 10.5220/0002860004850488


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu10,
author={J. Enrique Agudo and Mercedes Rico and Paula Ferreira and Héctor Sánchez and Patricia Edwards},
title={E-LEARNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATION IN EU PROFESSIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={485-488},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002860004850488},
isbn={978-989-674-023-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - E-LEARNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATION IN EU PROFESSIONS
SN - 978-989-674-023-8
AU - Enrique Agudo J.
AU - Rico M.
AU - Ferreira P.
AU - Sánchez H.
AU - Edwards P.
PY - 2010
SP - 485
EP - 488
DO - 10.5220/0002860004850488