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Teaching through English: The Case of International Commerce

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There are two main problems confronted by students and lecturers in the English in the International Commerce classroom. The first problem affects basic and generic learning skills since it affects the conceptualization of International Commerce. The second challenge affects all the different generic teaching skills. Lecturers need to find a middle ground in which to help students from different backgrounds conceptualize the subject while working with very different levels of language competence. There may be two possible solutions, splitting the class in two according to precedence and language competence level, which is sometimes an unattainable process, or, learning to be dynamic enough to integrate all student profiles and create a common space where learning can successfully be achieved.

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Muñoz de Prat, J. (2020). Teaching through English: The Case of International Commerce. In: Carrió-Pastor, M. (eds) Internationalising Learning in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21587-3_9

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