Teaching administrative terminology in Catalan

Abstract

This paper deals with terminology teaching in the administration field in Catalan language in the context of the specialisation subjects that are offered in the Public Administration Management Degree of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Polytechnic University of Valencia). In this sense, we start from the idea that in order to develop a good system for the teaching of terminological units, previous descriptive studies are required regarding the lexical and specialised combinations which allow us to get to know which aspects are the most problematic and thus, to direct teaching to their resolution. Firstly, we analyse the environment and teaching audience, since this fact presents some tendencies which will determine the teaching and learning methods. On the other hand, in order to be able to anticipate and solve other previous problems we must also analyse learners´ needs, taking into account that this is all about learning a minority language of social and professional restricted access. Finally, we have outlined three different phases in the teaching-learning terminology process, as well as the type of activities that have to be performed to achieve terminologic competence in the administrative and terminology field of the abovementioned subjects. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license