Foreign Language Acquisition in European Management Education

Robert Crane

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1990, vol. 511, issue 1, 74-84

Abstract: This article deals with trends in language use in European management education, both current and long-term. Beginning with a survey of the history of management education in Europe, the article traces the explosive growth of the management education field in Europe in the last few years. The relative importance of language acquisition in European—as opposed to American—management studies is also noted. The differences in the type and degree of integration of language learning in business education between various countries and institutions were brought out through a 1985 conference held on the topic in Lyons, France. Through a survey of 14 European countries carried out in November 1989, the author ascertained that the integration of the two fields had progressed dramatically since 1985. The business and language faculties in many European business schools are melding as the former retrain to teach in foreign languages and the latter to teach business-related subjects. One language—English—has assumed continentwide dominance in management education. Thanks to faculty retraining, a new diversity can now be found in European business curricula.

Date: 1990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716290511001006 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:511:y:1990:i:1:p:74-84

DOI: 10.1177/0002716290511001006

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().