Teaching English to Tourism Students

Introduction
The importance of English in Tourism

Teaching Materials

Development of competences

Generic Competence

The Linguistic competence

The Intercultural Competence

The Discourse Competence

Challenges

Requirements

to be authentic

to encourage students’ cooperation and critical thinking

to meet students' needs

to integrate language skills

Textbooks

Textbooks by well-known publishers

the Oxford English for Careers: Tourism series

the English for Tourism and Hospitality in Higher Education series (Garnet Education)

Test Your Professional English: Hotel and Catering (Pearson Education)

English for the Travel and Tourism Industry (CUP)

English for International Tourism series (Pearson Education Longman)

Textbooks by local institutions

Drawbacks

many teaching hours

Internet resources

  • alison.com/learn/English-for-Tourism, learnenglishfeelgood.com, esl-lab.com, englishformyjob.com, englishclub.com, business-english.com, bbcenglish.com, onestopenglish.com, etc

Authentic materials

tourism magazines (AFAR, The Travel Magazine, Today’s Traveller, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Euro Travel Magazine etc.),

TV documentaries from well known TV channels (Travel&Living, The Travel Channel, TV Touring etc.),

official sites (culturalromtour.com, unwto.org, romaniatourism.com),

Tourism blogs,

brochures,

recordings of conversations at the workplace

b

subject specific

Ability to generate appropriate language

Ability to recognize language and language patterns

Soft skills or People skills

teamwork

problem solving

willingness to succeed

assertiveness

concern for quality

diplomacy persuasion skills

decision making

the attitude,

behaviour,

believes and values

which exist within national or organisational cultures and which help people communicate successfully with people from other cultures

It focuses on the basic elements that together form a language

phonology

grammar

vocabulary

Reference should be made

lack of genuine needs analysis

no background content knowledge {students}

the size of the groups

willingness to be a lifelong trainee {teachers}

English is areal asset both for employment and for career advancement

Maria Anna Maican 2014

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