E-connexion

English: an essential tool for tomorrow.

 

You should be blind not to see that English language has a huge and increasing place in our world. Speaking English became necessary to move into tomorrow’s world. And this is even truer in medium of business and economy.

The FLSEG understood well these facts, and that’s why tools are developed in our faculty to help students to improve their English. Thus for few years students have an access to self learning, the Espace Langues, the TOEIC and English projects. Pedagogy is progressive to lead students to learn and improve through written and oral works, debates, and more and more interviews. The aim is to prepare us for tomorrow’s world market.

It’s true that in L1 and L2 self learning is quite boring, but English is something really important for most of us, and we have to complete our education step by step. Our motivations in learning English are different, some of us would like to travel, for others the aim is international business and so on, and FLSEG gives us many tools to succeed in. For all that, E-connexion deals with Anglo-Saxon world in English. And that’s why we hope that you will pay attention to English pages and enjoy it.

 

The “Espace Langues” : learn and enjoy !

 

 A new bigger room, a new team and new tools, the “Espace Langues” is growing in FLSEG. Interview with Patrick Ngatcha and Yolande Takone, two students in charge of this place where you can learn and improve many languages in an other way. Come in and relax.

 

E-connexion : Can you describe us the philosophy of the “Espace Langues”?

Yolande & Patrick: There are two starting objectives: to integrate the Erasmus students and to help FLSEG students with languages. Thus the Erasmus students can share their culture and the others can learn much from it. With professors we also set up extra teaching and we want to create links and mutual aid between students. The other logical objective is to make the “Espace Langues” lively, to make it friendly and to have lots of students coming in.

 

E-C: What do you actually propose to students?

Y&P: The first thing we propose is an adapted school support, in particular to prepare the TOEIC (books, computers…). Moreover a TOEIC simulation will be organized. We also propose permanencies for the language work, and the planning is posted in the entry of the room (and soon in E-connexion’s blog ). Afterwards, the other activities are more playful: plays, series in VO every midday, information in English and Spanish and we would like to propose movies. But the most important thing is the contact with the Erasmus students, and we have in project to set up a language coffee in this end.

 

E-C: Is the frequentation of the room sufficient for you?

Y&P: Not really. It’s quite disappointing because students don’t often come in. In general, there are often the same ones which come: accustomed. On the level of Erasmus or FLSEG’s students, we hope that a little more interest will be given to this place.

 

E-C: In few words, what would you say to motivate students for coming here?

Y&P: They would win a lot in coming here! It’s entertaining and they could improve their foreign languages. The Espace Langues is a mix of cultures and we all learn much more than only a language.

 

To be continued in Espace Langues, in floor 2, in front of the BDE