A content-based approach using the subprime crisis as portrayed in The Big Short

Abstract

This report describes an ESP teaching module in financial English taught since the 2016-17 academic year at Pantheon-Assas University (Paris) in the third year of an economics and management Bachelor’s programme. Claire Heuillard approaches the subprime crisis through a film, The Big Short (McKay 2015), inspired from Michael Lewis’s bestseller, The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton 2011), one of the best encapsulations of the latest bubble-and-crash episode in financial history....