Recherche des besoins langagiers d’adultes en milieu professionnel

Ghali, Dominique Dos; Tremblay, Denis

doi:10.3138/cmlr.36.3.434

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“…Other needs surveys common to multi-lingual settings (e.g., Kuhn 1981) focus on language use; Kuhn studied 59 companies in Lower Saxony to determine foreign language demand, and found that English was in greatest need and that most companies provided their own in-house language training. One of the most extensive studies of this type relied upon the classic work of Richterich and Chancerel (1978) for the Council of Europe to determine the vocabulary and structural patterns of communicative situations in which Canadian diplomats use French (Dos Ghali and Tremblay 1980). Also in Canada, Ricciardi and Edwards (1982) launched a major project to examine the communicative needs of public service employees in order to design appropriate proficiency tests.…”

Section: Needs-assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Language Of Business

Johns¹

1986

Ann Rev Appl Ling

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The teaching of the language of business, sometimes also called the “language of commerce” or “administration” (Yates 1977), has the longest history of any specific purpose teaching area; and, in ESP at least, the largest number of textbooks have been produced for business students (Robinson 1980). Yet most seminal research contributions to ESP have been in English for Science and Technology (EST). Due to this phenomenon, Swales (1985) subtitles his ESP retrospective “a source and reference book on the development of English for science and technology.” Earlier well-known collections–e.g., MacKay and Mountford (1978), Trimble, Trimble, and Drobnic (1978), and Selinker, Tarone, and Hanzeli (1981)–provide further evidence for the dominance of EST in teaching and research.

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Section: Needs-assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%