BERUFS- UND LERNERORIENTIERTER FREMDSPRACHENANFÄNGERUNTERRICHT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSSTUDIERENDE

The goal of non-linguistic university foreign language teaching is the development of action-oriented competences in the foreign language for the study time and for the professional future trough university-adequate, student-oriented and career-oriented goals, methods, tasks and content. Experience in the university foreign language classroom shows that many students have little or no knowledge of the foreign language. There is a need for beginner's lessons, which should still be profession-oriented and learner-oriented. This paper presents concrete needs-, career- and learner-oriented concept for a beginner course for students of economics, based on needs analysis and multi-year implementation and evaluation in the classroom. It also presents the principle of choosing topic and content that are appropriate for each country and for each foreign language for beginner lessons at university level.