The challenges of teaching English for Economics, with pluralist theories and fuzzy boundaries

Abstract

This report describes both the objectives and the contents of the English for economics course that Nadeera Rajapakse taught for twelve years at Universite Paris 2 Pantheon Assas within the first year of the Master’s degree. She mentions her questioning in relation to contents and the challenge she had to face in gathering her corpus of authentic documents in designing this course. Along with the social sciences, i.e. sociology or psychology, economic research is often based on quantitative s...