employment and career advancement

travel agent,receptionist, manager in tourism activities, hotel or restaurant manager

bachelor degree 14-28 hour master degree- 2 or 4 hour

8 years experience- at least B2 level.

“soft skills” or “people skills” being transferable from one field to another

E. Frendo attitude, behaviour, believes and values which exist within national or organisational cultures and which help people communicatesuccessfully with people from other cultures

Hofstede et al dimensions which are commonly used when comparing cultures

E.Frendo focuses on the basic elements that together form a language, (phonology, grammar and vocabulary)

A.Vizental there used to be a prejudice according to which vocabulary teaching was equivalent to providing students with long lists of isolated words, generally organized in semantic fields, but not contextualized, which had to be learned by heart

types of activities to enhance the linguistic competence

E. Frendo the discourse competence always situates language in use, involving people’s ability to generateappropriate language in different contexts corresponding to professional communication.

the ability of recognizing language and languagepatterns, consequently encompassing all the four language skills

activities to enhance discourse competence:

English for International Tourism series (Pearson Education Longman), the Oxford English for Careers: Tourism series, the English for Tourism and Hospitality in Higher Education series (GarnetEducation), Test Your Professional English: Hotel and Catering (Pearson Education), English for the Travel and Tourism Industry (CUP)

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

AFAR, The Travel Magazine, Today’s Traveller, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine,Euro TravelMagazine TV documentaries from well known TV channels (Travel&Living, The Travel Channel, TV Touring