RT Report T1 Learning English for economics through the mass media A1 Almendárez López, Isidro A1 García Vaquero, Ángel AB Our students of Economics have to read long texts referring to international different aspects of economic theory, trade, business organizations, the world economy, etc. The main target, according to their curriculum, is to achieve a good knowledge of a specific vocabulary which will facilitate them their understanding of a written passage dealing with an economic issue. Apart from the implementation of different reading techniques, we believe that the integration of the other three skills is the best way to achieve our aim. At the same time we provide students with a more comprehensive knowledge of the language. According to this, we show different activities we have carried out with our students at the Facul ty of Economics Uni vers idad Complutense (Madrid) - when exploiting a cover story in regard to the recent American recession. The activities we include range from exercises on lexis such as synonyms, fill-in the gaps, semantic fields, matching terms and definitions to a grammar point to be studied in depth, together with the exercises that facilitate its acquisition and finally sorne listening activities associated with notetaking and discussing and comprehension questions from a video tape. PB Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Decanato SN 2255-5471 YR 1992 FD 1992 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64027 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64027 LA eng NO Carter, Ronald and MeCarthy, Miehael. 1988, Vocabulary and Language Teaching. New York: Longman.Dudly-Evans, T. and Henderson, W. 1990, The Language of Economics: The Analysis of Economics Discourse. Hong-Kong: Modern English Publication and the British Council.Grellet, Frangoise. 1981, Developing Reading Skills. New York: Cambridge University Press.Markstein, Linda and Hirasawa, Louise. 1983, Developing Reading Skills. Rowley, Massaehusetts: Newbury House Publishers, Inc.Nuttall, Christine. 1982, Teaching Reading Skills. London: Heineman Edueational Books Ltd.Papalia, Anthony. 1987, "Interaction of Reader and Text," Interactive Language Teaching. Wilga Rivers ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.Rivers, Wilga M. ed. 1987, Interactive Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press.Wringe, Colin. 1989, The Effective Teaching of Modern Languages. London: Longman. DS Docta Complutense RD 8 may 2024