scholarly journals ‘Linguist’ or ‘Global Graduate’? A matter of identity for the global graduate with language skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Wyburd
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Intercultural Skills ◽  
Problematic Issue

In this chapter, I examine the problematic issue of identifying as a ‘linguist’ for graduates who have studied languages, in an employability context. I challenge them to reframe their identity as ‘global graduates’, with reference to the competencies outlined in the Global Graduates into Global Leaders report (NCUB, 2011). In the process, I also demonstrate why a truly global graduate needs also to be a linguist, in spite of the hegemony of English as a global lingua franca, and in the context of Brexit. I provide a framework for use by students, with support from educators, to translate their skill sets and experiences into the language of employers. I hope that this will provide a clear guide to the importance not just of developing, but also articulating cogently a range of competencies which are transferable to the global economy and global society, and a convincing argument for the importance of language and intercultural skills within that portfolio.

scholarly journals Intelligibility in English as a lingua franca – The interpreters’ perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Karin Reithofer
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
Written Questions ◽  
Subordinate Role

AbstractThis article aims at examining the topic of ELF intelligibility from the interpreters’ perspective. Therefore, the focus is put on listener factors affecting intelligibility in settings typical for interpreting i.e. monologic settings. Data from various intelligibility studies are compared with results from a study that tested an ELF user’s intelligibility in a conference-like ELF setting and examined the influence of listener variables such as background knowledge, familiarity with ELF use or proficiency in English. In this study, an Italian speaker gave an impromptu speech in English to participants who subsequently were asked to answer written questions on the topic. The results showed that listeners with more experience in ELF settings reached the highest score in the test, while participants with specialist knowledge were unable to profit from it. The participants’ English language skills played a rather subordinate role. The findings of this study may prove useful for considerations in interpreter training and can contribute to the development of concrete, evidence-based training methods for interpreters in the interpreting sub-skill of comprehension.

Linguistic diversity in the international workplace: Language ideologies and processes of exclusion

Multilingua ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorte Lønsmann
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Essential Connection ◽  
Modern Workplace

AbstractThis article draws on a study of language choice and language ideologies in an international company in Denmark. It focuses on the linguistic and social challenges that are related to the diversity of language competences among employees in the modern workplace. Research on multilingualism at work has shown that employees may be excluded from informal interactions and from access to power structures on the basis of language skills in the company’s language(s). The data discussed here show that in the modern workplace, employees’ linguistic competences are diverse; international employees often have competence in the company’s lingua franca but lack skills in the local language while some ‘local’ employees lack competence in the corporate language (typically English). This can lead to the sociolinguistic exclusion of either group. In conclusion, the article relates these processes of exclusion to two language ideologies: one about an essential connection between language and nation and one about a hierarchy of English users.

Ethical Implications for IT

2010 ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
International Social

In this chapter, I will examine the ethical consequences for IT of the International Social Contract and the Global Economy Social Contract. I began considering ethical responses to global ethical problems of IT in Chapter 9, IT and Globalized Ethics, and continued the discussion in Chapter 11, Globalized Ethics and Current Institutions. Here I will examine the impact of the two social contracts on those ethical responses.

Video Gaming for STEM Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 1177-1187
Author(s):  
Kim J. Hyatt ◽  
Jessica L. Barron ◽  
Michaela A. Noakes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Learning Principles

The focus of this chapter is how video games can be utilized for instructional purposes, specifically in the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Gaming, as an instructional tool, enables educators to create participatory learning activities, assess understanding of complex and ill-formed situations, facilitate critical thinking and problem solving capabilities, and ensure active engagement across the learning continuum for all students. How to use it effectively, however, is a topic of debate among many educational scholars. In order to create innovative ways to teach classic concepts using video games, instructors need diverse skills: technology skills to access video games that meet the needs of today's learners for active engagement, instructional skills to integrate theory and practice, as well as adhere to the standards of academic rigor, and leadership skills to guide students to higher levels of critical and creative thinking. Therefore, this chapter will explore the vast world of video games and the opportunities for instructors to incorporate them into lesson planning. The basis of this empirical work is to align the guiding principles of STEM with the identification of accessible games, based upon learning principles and assessment strategies. The challenge for 21st century educators will be how to bridge the gap between the traditional development of skill sets to meet workforce demands in a dynamically changing global economy that simultaneously creates employees who are capable of innovation, collaboration, and deep critical thinking.

Video Gaming for STEM Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim J. Hyatt ◽  
Jessica L. Barron ◽  
Michaela A. Noakes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Lesson Planning ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Learning Principles ◽  
Assessment Strategies

Therefore, this chapter will explore the vast world of video games and the opportunities for instructors to incorporate them into lesson planning. The basis of this empirical work is to align the guiding principles of STEM with the identification of accessible games, based upon learning principles and assessment strategies. The challenge for 21st century educators will be how to bridge the gap between the traditional development of skill sets to meet workforce demands in a dynamically changing global economy that simultaneously creates employees who are capable of innovation, collaboration, and deep critical thinking.

scholarly journals Space, Marginality, and Youth in Urban Spaces: Pedagogical Practices in the Quartieri Spagnoli

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-125
Author(s):  
Matías Nestore
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Comparative Sociology ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
The City

AbstractThe Quartieri Spagnoli (QS) in Naples represent a central urban area of the city affected by extreme levels of disadvantage. The area is characterized by crime, together with high unemployment and school dropout rates, and virtually no social integration in the wider urban landscape. With the highest population density in the city, the area is low in services and green spaces, and its spatial arrangements are characterized by narrow streets and restricted accessibility. In this chapter, I aim to present an account of children’s lived experiences and self-perceptions of space, power, and violence in an urban space that is facing a process of change due to recent capitalist developments such as deepening deprivation and marginalization in advanced capitalist societies (Wacquant, Urban outcasts: a comparative sociology of advanced marginality. Polity, Cambridge, 2008), and expulsions (Sassen, Expulsions: brutality and complexity in the global economy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014). Moreover, I focus on teachers’ perceptions of their role as pedagogical actors in a marginalized urban space.

Building a Holistic Foundation for Leadership and Management through Online Learning

2009 ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Sharon G. Juozapavicius
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Entire Spectrum ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Essential Knowledge ◽  
Manager Development

Leadership and management, in their truest state, represent a compilation of knowledge gained through the entire spectrum of experiential learning. While these terms are familiar as unique and individual entities, in today’s global economy they are inexorably linked and increasingly essential. The paradigms of a Novice Leader/Manager and Leader/Manager are discussed along with the communication and acquisition of essential knowledge areas and skill sets via e-learning. Explored are three key areas: the importance of building a holistic foundation for the individual’s role as a Leader/Manager, the essential journey the student, as a Novice Leader/Manager, must take to ferret out and enhance his/her own ability to recognize and close gaps in personal Leader/Manager development, and pathways to guide and support the student’s discovery and transition from difficulties and pitfalls to operating at a point of top level skills and interaction via long distance online learning.

Globalized Ethics and Current Institutions

2010 ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Global Principles

In this chapter, I will examine the extent to which current institutions might be able to implement the principles of global justice. I will begin with a few remarks about a market economy and continue with the two major institutions involved in the global economy--states and multinational corporations. Then I will consider other current transnational institutions such as world financial and economic institutions (World Bank, IMF, WTO), the United Nations and World Court, and other transnational NGOs. Finally, a number of practices have transnational impacts, and the Global Principles of Justice require changes to those practices. These are: Property and intellectual property, taxes, and Internet regulation.

scholarly journals Forming a Well Organized Writing Activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Irfan Tosuncuoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Basic Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Main Components

English has been widely spoken in the world and seen as the language of education, communication, economics and etc., for a long time and it can be accepted as lingua franca. Knowledge of a language includes four basic language skills, these are listening, reading, speaking, and writing. In this study writing was investigated in detail and it was mentioned why writing was difficult and importance of writing was explained. This study was produced from the author’s doctoral dissertation. It was seen that students’ ability to write in a well- organized manner was insufficient. So, in the study, the main components for a well-organized composition that is outlining, coherence, unity were explained. In addition remedial exercises for developing writing skills were indicated in order to develop students’ writing skills. In the research, controlled pre, post-test Experimental Design was used. During the pedagogical experiment the teacher- experimentator himself carried out all the studies in control and experimental groups during the process of the experiment. Furthermore it was stressed that materials and teachers skills were important for the development of the students in the related topic.

scholarly journals From Piketty’s Capital to Marx’s das Kapital

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Øjvind Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has created a very new platform for a discussion of the global economy. There is possibly no other book on economy which has been published in so many languages, printed in so many copies, and has found its way to such a varied global public. Piketty’s Capital has been discussed in many high ranked academic journals, and at the same time, it has come out to a broader audience with advertisements in places like the underground public transportation in metropolises around the world. The title of the book is also very ambitious in so far as the title Capital claims to be a follow up of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital for the twenty-first century. Piketty is similar to Marx in his ambition to give a large historical, or a world historical perspective on the significance of capitalist economy for the development of global society. Given this background it could be interesting to consider the relations between Piketty’s Capital and Marx’s Das Kapital.

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