scholarly journals Collaborating across organizational lines in Language for Specific Purposes

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaona Yu ◽  
Amanda Vincent ◽  
Audra L. Merfeld-Langston ◽  
Carmen Pérez-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Chinese Business ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
A Minor

Since its inception in the 1970s, the field of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) in the United States has continually adapted to ever-changing real-world needs. Its evolution has contributed to its increasing relevance, though the field faces ongoing challenges presented by the gap between its interdisciplinary nature and a lack of instructor expertise in the LSP content area, and thus calls for collaborations among institutions and communities. Reviewing successful collaborations in LSP, this chapter proposes an interdisciplinary collaboration taxonomy that aims to describe, compare, and evaluate such collaborations. The taxonomy categorizes LSP interdisciplinary collaborations at resource, project, course, and program levels, through intra-institutional and extra-institutional partnership. Furthermore, this chapter showcases examples of such collaborations at two institutions in courses of business Chinese, business French, medical Spanish, and a minor in Latin American studies for technical applications. These successful experiences demonstrate how LSP instructors can conduct intra- and extra-institutional collaboration with varying degrees of interactivity and on various scales to align the course with discipline standards. Each example also reflects on challenges and share tips related to logistics for replication and future development.

The Development of Latin-American Studies in the United States, 1939–1945

1947 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Hanke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
The Coordinator

The period 1939–1945 saw an unprecedented expansion of Latin American studies in the United States. This was partly due to the wartime activities of such government agencies as the Department of State and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and to the rising interest in the area approach to academic studies. This development would not have been possible, however, without the continuous concern of the foundations, which had helped to organize scholars in the field on a national basis, had stimulated research in relatively neglected fields, and had provided funds for the compilation and publication of certain basic bibliographical tools. Nor would this expansion have been more than a wartime boom had not the scholars and universities of the country been attracted to Hispanic studies since George Ticknor and William H. Prescott first disclosed their importance over a century ago, and to the Latin American field more particularly since 1900. The expansion was based upon solid elements.

Re-visioning Latin American Studies in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Sonia E. Alvarez ◽  
Arturo Arias ◽  
Charles R. Hale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latin American Studies

The Development of Latin-American Studies in the United States, 1939–1945

1947 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 32-64
Author(s):  
Lewis Hanke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
The Coordinator

The period 1939–1945 saw an unprecedented expansion of Latin American studies in the United States. This was partly due to the wartime activities of such government agencies as the Department of State and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and to the rising interest in the area approach to academic studies. This development would not have been possible, however, without the continuous concern of the foundations, which had helped to organize scholars in the field on a national basis, had stimulated research in relatively neglected fields, and had provided funds for the compilation and publication of certain basic bibliographical tools. Nor would this expansion have been more than a wartime boom had not the scholars and universities of the country been attracted to Hispanic studies since George Ticknor and William H. Prescott first disclosed their importance over a century ago, and to the Latin American field more particularly since 1900. The expansion was based upon solid elements.

scholarly journals Important contribution to Russian Latin American studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Anatoly Borovkov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Development ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The Government

The book examines the main trends in Mexico's international activities in the first two decades of the XXI century, as well as the leading trends in its socio-political development. The author tried to show that Mexico is more and more actively involved in solving the main problems of world politics, where it emphatically takes independent positions. Mexico's relations with the United States, with the countries of Latin America, with China and Spain, as well as the prospects for expanding ties with Russia are analyzed, Mexico's position in the UN is shown and the prospects for the development of its foreign policy under the government of Lopez Obrador.

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