Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193708 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (IEDEE) [ISSN:] 1135-2523 [Volume:] 19 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 63-70
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract (Translated): 
The design of qualifications around professional profiles and steering teaching towards the acquisition of competences are 2 major challenges targeted by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This study analyses the importance given by teachers to knowledge of a second language in Business Organisation matters in Business Management and Administration (BMA) and Engineering studies in the European context. As its basis, the study takes answers from teaching staff in 20 European countries given in an online survey. The results lead to the conclusion that mastery of a second language is a specific competence considered by teachers to be crucial for the training of university BMA and Engineering students, although Spain is behind other countries in the region with regard to how the importance of a second language is perceived as a curricular and professional competence.
Subjects: 
European Higher Education Area
Competence-based teaching
Linguistic competence
Curriculum
Language learning
JEL: 
I21
I23
M10
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Document Type: 
Article

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