English Content-Based Approaches to Teaching Accounting

• Autores: Pablo Moreno
• Localización: Latin American Journal of Content & Language Integrated Learning, ISSN-e 2011-6721, ISSN 2322-9721, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2008, págs. 26-34
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article illustrates the application of strategies on the part of the lecturer to teach a course of accounting in English to non-native English speakers. The following approaches proved to be the most useful: students realizing the importance of acquiring technical vocabulary in English; applying theory during the class as a language strategy; using different bibliographic sources such as journals, books and websites; writing papers which demonstrate student’s comprehension; communicating theory utilizing visual tools such as graphs, tables, beamer presentations; progressively reapplying the same financial procedures to more sophisticated settings with increasingly more text; consolidating a strong relationship of cooperation between the lecturer and the Foreign Language Department. This is a process of continuous improvement, hence the need to share results with other instructors and to observe similar experiences from different universities.