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Designing a Task-Based and Community-Engaged Business Chinese Course

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Language for specific purposes courses aim to foster students’ interdisciplinary and intercultural competence in a foreign language through targeted contextualization. However, applied linguists and language professionals are rarely experts in both linguistic and content instruction which may render threat to the LSP course relevance and accountability. This study, based on needs and means analyses, presents a task-based and community-engaged business Chinese course design. The course consisted of three modules: Job Search, Work and Social Life, and International Business and Entrepreneurship. Domain experts (e.g., school career coaches, multinational corporation business professionals, and Chinese international students) from local and virtual communities joined the instructor in conducting a variety of performance-based assessments, including job interview, social gathering, on-site visit, online multimedia competition.

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    Qiaona Yu

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Table 8.1 Job interview rubric
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Table 8.2 Rubric for multinational marketing proposal
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Yu, Q. (2019). Designing a Task-Based and Community-Engaged Business Chinese Course. In: Tao, H., Chen, HJ. (eds) Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes. Chinese Language Learning Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9505-5_8

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