Mixing business with language: collaborative exchanges between Edinburgh and Aix-Marseille University

Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain () and Christine Penman
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Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christine Penman: Edinburgh Napier University

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Abstract: This paper will report on a two-year collaborative programme between Edinburgh Napier University and Aix-Marseille Université which has brought together final year students of French and students on an Export by apprenticeship Master programme who combine working in a French company with management and language studies. After outlining the pedagogical contexts in France and Scotland which prompted the set-up of the initial educational project, we will present the pedagogical activities which were designed to stimulate linguistic and cultural exchanges through engagement with a wiki and skype sessions in Year One. We will then present how reflections on the initial experience has led to a redesign of pedagogical activities in Year 2 and a broadening of the project to include face-to-face exchanges between the two institutions and a range of entrepreneurial and intercultural activities. Reflections on this collaboration will include a review of the pedagogical activities undertaken, the challenge of combining mutually beneficial linguistic and cross-cultural activities and considerations of the sustainability of this exchange.

Keywords: Pedagogical innovation; Collaboration; France; Scotland Aix-Marseille University; Cross-cultural activities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07-06
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Published in The 8th biennial Conference LLAS, UCML and AULC ,"Languages in Higher Education", University of Warwick, 6-7 juillet 2016, LLAS, UCML and AULC, Jul 2016, Warwick, United Kingdom

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