A Task-based Needs Analysis of University-level Portuguese for Business.
Portuguese language instruction is relevant to global businesses, diplomacy, security, and environmental affairs, yet it accounted for only 0.7% of total world language enrollments at universities in the United States in 2016. As part of an attempt to promote enrollments in Portuguese at an American...
| Published in: | Hispania Vol. 105; no. 3; pp. 401 - 423 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Sep2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=159138127&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 159138127 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00182133 QPR jtl: Hispania issn: 00182133 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2022 vid: 105 iid: 3 pid: 226 pub: Johns Hopkins University Press artinfo: ui: 159138127 10.1353/hpn.2022.0065 ppf: 401 ppct: 22 formats: tig: atl: A Task-based Needs Analysis of University-level Portuguese for Business. aug: au: de Oliveira, Marcela Lemos, Silva su: Diplomacy Language & languages United States sug: subj: United States Diplomacy Language & languages ab: Portuguese language instruction is relevant to global businesses, diplomacy, security, and environmental affairs, yet it accounted for only 0.7% of total world language enrollments at universities in the United States in 2016. As part of an attempt to promote enrollments in Portuguese at an American public research institution with a top-rated business school, this task-based needs analysis aims to inform the restructuring of this institution's Portuguese for Business course into a task-based curriculum. For this purpose, I conceptually replicate Serafini and Torres's (2015) and Martin and Adrada-Rafael's (2017) Business Spanish needs analyses, as there are no previously published Portuguese for Business task-based needs analyses in the United States. In addition to a systematic investigation of task frequency and perceived difficulty, the current needs analysis includes an assessment of the viability of implementing a reconfigured Portuguese for Business course whose previous version has not been offered since 2008. The results indicate that the reimplementation is viable if the course is offered in preparation for a business school's course that has a study abroad component. The needs analysis also generated a set of 33 target tasks that will provide a basis for the new curriculum and inform the course objectives and the design of future pedagogic tasks. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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