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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
COMPETENCE Vs. ECONOMICS AND CEFRL
According to the regulations of the CEFR‌ in the globalization, the English language takes an important role in the development of many countries in the global economy and in the
international culture with the use of a common language.. Let us begin by discussing several facts that support the importance of the English language in Economics at the FUAC. On the market side, the use of the English language is quite simple as the economy is increasing at huge steps due to the different changes concerning international markets and becoming this language in the most underlying feature, the CEFR, has very well defined the levels of the English language as the international standards. As we can notice in the scales, to reach the highest levels means to get the highest position in a company, if in the job market we need to compete with this competence that nowadays is not the English of just a few countries but of the most. On the part of the employment side, business transactions, finances, international affairs and relations; all that demand both, a professional career and a basic and advanced
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Since the international standards control not just the functioning of the planning, organization, staffing, budgeting, of any kind of company, enterprise, or institution, to mention some; the CEFR makes an assessment of the English competences for the worldwide context in the English language, and it is our role, to provide the graduate students at the FUAC, with this competence.
the programs, has established for the students, the English language competence in Level B1 and in the very near future the level B2 as the minimum one for all the graduate students who will immediately enter in the international markets.
Economics? Certainly, the FUAC offers this program. Economy? Yes, definitely, our economy is changing. Economic? Yes, the world needs economic prices to be consumers. Economist? Yes, graduate students become Economists.
Omayra Vargas C. English Teacher English Micro curricular Component . As Colombia has taken part of National Bilingual Program from Ministry of Education to fulfill requirements of the CEFRL, FUAC goes behind to get it.
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For the above said, the FUAC, to contribute with this proposal and to improve the quality of