LSP 4 Employability Course
- Welcome to the course!
Welcome to the course!
LSP education and a great variety of needs of both students and employers demand personalized approach.
Although the abundance of teaching materials available on the market cover multiple fields of linguistic study, the recommendations expressed by the employers highlight the need to use authentic materials, collaboration, specialized vocabulary, following current job market trends during LSP classes. On top of that, the covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and a growing popularity of online teaching show that textbooks become obsolete. All these mean that, in practice, LSP teachers end up creating their own teaching materials using tools and sources available online.
The exercises presented below were created by LSP teachers from three universities based on recommendations collected from employers.
Onboarding to an international company
- Onboarding to an international company
Onboarding to an international company
When receiving visitors or clients from other countries, visiting and meeting cooperation partners, working on an international team, presenting, giving feedback, negotiating or simply socialising, there is a need for effective cross-cultural communication. It means that:
- You should be able to understand your own culture and the target culture you are dealing with;
- You should be flexible in the way you communicate with people from other cultures.
- You should adapt your style of communication to fit the situation.
In the following video, you will see nine different situations in which misunderstandings arise between people at a workplace, all because of cultural differences between their styles of communication. In each situation, try to identify what exactly went wrong.
Please listen to the following podcast about cross-cultural communication in a business setting and answer all of the questions in the task.
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