The Role of Projects in the Strategy for Developing the Language Skills of Business Students

Abstract

The implementation of a system of quality management in higher education is aimed at assuring a stimulating and interactive study environment meant to facilitate the students’ involvement in the process of their own formation. The projects devised by business students, individually, within a foreign language, practical courses enhance their social skills (civicmindedness, communication, empathy) emotional intelligence (self-efficacy, self-awareness, self-management, self-motivation) as well as their propensity for interaction and support. In addition to the students’ freedom of expression approach, transversal competencies are also utilized in this teaching strategy employed in foreign language courses with a view to developing language skills. Projects offer students autonomy and the opportunity to express themselves by speaking about topics that arouse their interest thus opening a path to address the chosen topics from an intercultural perspective and to explore them from trans-disciplinary and interdisciplinary angles.