NI04_02 Professional/Business/Commercial Dutch

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Sofie Rose-Anne W. Royeaerd, M.A. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martina Limburg Loučková, M.A. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Sofie Rose-Anne W. Royeaerd, M.A.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 14:10–15:45 pracovna
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In this course advanced students of Dutch as a foreign language are introduced in business Dutch. At the end of the course students should be able to correspond (writing formal letters and emails), converse, have a conference, minute, negotiate, report and present issues in Dutch. The text book Taal in zaken. Zakelijk Nederlands voor anderstaligen (2003) by Christine van Baalen serves as a basis. Attention is payed to business in an intercultural context.
Syllabus
  • Conversations: theory (introduction)
  • Conversations: practice (business conversations, evaluating people) + Telephone conversations: theory
  • Thelephone conversations: practice (telefoongesprekken) + Correspondence: theory (introduction / information letters)
  • Correspondence: theory (letters to ask somebody a favour, letters of complaint, letters conveying bad news, application letters, memo, fax and e-mail)
  • Correspondence: discussion/evaluation information letters + Conversation: theory job interviews
  • Correspondence: discussion/evaluation application letters + conversations: practice (job interviews)
  • Correspondence: discussion/evaluation request letters, memo/fax/e-mail + Negotiating: theory
  • Correspondence: discussion/evaluation letters of complaint, letters that convey bad news + Negotiating: practice
  • To have a meeting/to take minutes: theory
  • Vergaderen/notuleren: practice
  • Presentions: practice (presentations students)
  • Presentions: practice (presentations students)
  • Presentations / revision class
Literature
  • BAALEN, P. C. van. Taal in zaken : Zakelijk Nederlands voor anderstaligen. Utrecht: Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, 2003, 304 s. ISBN 9055176095. info
Teaching methods
A combination of lecture and seminar (two hours per week); within the class a combination of teacher-led activities (theory) and student-centered learning activities will be employed (practice).
Assessment methods
Classes every week (two hours)
Weekly written and oral assignments are graded and evaluated. At the end of the semester, students hand in a file with all their corrected written assignments and a larger assignment (a report).
In the last classes each students gives a presentation.
The file with written assignments, the report, the presentation and the oral assignment are graded. The student needs to have a minium of 55 percent for all assignments together, in order to get a credit for this subject.
Language of instruction
Dutch
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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