Curriculum improvement of the subject Spanish of commerce for students who are not Spanish speakers

Abstract

Training in Spanish for academic purposes and specifically Spanish for professional purposes for commerce for Sino-speaking students of the Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Language at Changchun Normal University constitutes a priority and at the same time an increasingly growing demand on the part of learners. The objective of the article was to socialize a new didactic proposal for the subject “Spanish for Commerce” based on the communicative approach and the application of the simulation method and learning tasks located in the fourth year of the degree for a level B1 and /or B2. To achieve the planned scientific results, the historical and logical methods, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, and the systemic-structural method were applied, in addition to the interview with directors of the course, observation of classes, analysis of governing documents of the course to assess the feasibility of the didactic proposal and its implementation. For this, expert criteria was used. The relevance of the new didactic proposal was confirmed, which combines in a structured and sequenced way the communicative skills of the language and at the same time enables students to coherently incorporate the vocabulary, phraseologies and idiomatic expressions typical of the commercial field and that in turn apply it to develop effective and efficient communication in the companies where they are located to work.