The Utility of Needs Analysis for Nondomain Expert Instructors in Designing Task-Based Spanish for the Professions Curricula

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 447-472

  Serafini, Ellen J ^a   Torres, Julio ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business Spanish; Course design; Needs analysis; Spanish for specific purposes; Task based language teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941746112     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12150     Document Type: Article

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