TRAPS TO THE APPLIED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: THE FUNCTIONAL ILLITERATENESS
TRAPS TO THE APPLIED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: THE FUNCTIONAL ILLITERATENESS

Summary/Abstract: The article suggests the reconsideration of the applied English teaching activity for the Romanian fresh students in economics which is hampered by the recent wide spread phenomenon of functional illiterateness of the high school graduates. The critical quantitative and qualitative analysis of the misused language samples raise questions on the students' capacity to communicate accurately and transfer professional knowledge and understanding from one language into another. Our commitment to support professional training of the students brings forward facts and figures of the phenomenon and suggests solutions for the improvement of their reading and listening comprehension ability and meaningful language articulation both in Romanian and English. Our research is driven by the commitment of language teachers to adopt a specific national level admitted definition of the phenomenon first, and then to make possible the development of an adequate strategy to put an end to it.

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