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English for university admin staff: it’s all in the mix
Language Learning in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-05-01 , DOI: 10.1515/cercles-2021-2008
Pete Westbrook 1
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As a result of increasing internationalisation, the University of Copenhagen established the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP) in 2008 as a research, competence development and resource centre. Part of CIP’s remit is to provide language training (mainly in Danish and English) for students and staff at the University. While there has been a lot of focus on teaching and learning through the medium of English, the language needs of administrative staff seem to have been neglected. They are expected to communicate with international students, teachers and researchers who do not necessarily speak the local language. This activity report looks at how CIP has set about meeting these needs by developing specific terminology-based language courses in English for university administrative staff, including HR, finance and study administrative staff. The terminology taught on the courses is tailored to the specific group of participants; however, a basic framework of activities is used as the starting point for all the terminology courses. As participants’ course evaluations have been overwhelmingly positive about the blend of activities, this paper reports on the design of the framework and how it is applied to the courses in practice.

中文翻译:

大学管理人员的英语:一切都在混合中

由于国际化程度不断提高,哥本哈根大学于 2008 年成立了国际化和并行语言使用中心 (CIP),作为研究、能力开发和资源中心。CIP 的部分职责是为大学的学生和教职员工提供语言培训(主要是丹麦语和英语)。虽然通过英语进行教学和学习已经得到了很多关注,但行政人员的语言需求似乎被忽视了。他们应该与不一定会说当地语言的国际学生、教师和研究人员进行交流。本活动报告着眼于 CIP 如何着手通过为大学行政人员(包括人力资源、财务和研究行政人员。课程中教授的术语是为特定的参与者群体量身定制的;然而,活动的基本框架被用作所有术语课程的起点。由于参与者的课程评估对活动的混合非常积极,本文报告了框架的设计以及如何将其应用于实践课程。
更新日期:2021-06-11
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