EXPORT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT - IMC Fachhochschule Krems

Spanish IV
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Fall 2 SPA 2,5
Learning Outcomes / Course Objectives
Parting from the (very) different levels of language knowledge and concerning the
different language competences, such as speaking, writing, reading, listening and
intercultural competences, the students will be enabled to:
� Written production: the students can write clear detailed texts on a variety of
economic subjects concerning the field of
� companies, synthesizing and evaluating information and arguments from a
number of sources.
� Listening A: the students can understand the information content of the majority
of recorded or broadcast audio and
� audiovisual material on topics of economic or personal interest delivered in clear
standard speech.
� Listening B: the students can understand straightforward factual information
about common everyday or job related
� topics.
� Reading: the students can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related
to economic matters with a satisfactory
� level of comprehension.
� Spoken interaction: the students can communicate with some confidents on
familiar routine and non-routine matters
� related to their interest and professional field. They can exchange, check and
confirm information, deal with less routine
� situations and explain why something is a problem. They are able to express
thoughts and opinions on more abstract
� questions.
� Continuous speaking: the students can develop a speech about a certain economic
matter well enough to be followed
� without difficulty most of the time.
� Intercultural awareness: the students know the most important conventions
concerning the body language and social
� behavior of the Spanish speaking world. They acquire knowledge, awareness and
understanding of the relation (similarities
� and distinctive differences) between the ‗world of origin‘ and the ‗world of the
target community‘.
Prerequisites / Level
SPA 3
Course Description
The semester will treat the subjects: basics of economy, companies and their types and
history, structures and products, business trips and fairs. Oral presentations and written
texts will be used to improve the ability of speaking, reading, understanding as well as
the report of ideas from English into Spanish.
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