Interacción oral en el aula de Inglés para fines profesionales para negocios con gran influencia de estudiantes internacionales

Zusammenfassung

Erasmus students are common in many classes of English for business even when the level of the class is even lower than their competence. This paper presents a situation in which the pace of the class is imposed to a great extent by the wide existing majority of international students in the class. In the first quarter of the course 2010-2011 the subject of English for Business I at University of Alcala had a registration in which the international students was 57% and their class attendance run between 60% to 80% due to the Spanish students’ absenteeism. Since this class is oriented towards the last ones and not to the visiting students it is a question of optimizing the need and obligation of using L2 to follow this task based course (although supported by a textbook and computerized materials or from the Internet) in which collaborative work and the use of information technology to create alternative evaluation elements prevailed. This paper will show the benefits of this type of grouping both for the Spanish students and for the international ones.