TEACHING ENGLISH TO ECONOMICS STUDENTS

The present paper focuses on the current needs of a faculty specialized in teaching Economics when it comes to foreign language teaching – especially English language. It also talks about the great help and the importance of computers in the process of language teaching in a non-philological faculty. Key words: foreign languages, computers, terminology Language is the main means of communicating- it’s a fact- even though, strangely enough, it can become the most important obstacle in communication. This lack of communication may be either the result of not being able to understand some concepts in your own language, or the consequence of using different languages. In this paper we will mainly focus on the second circumstance, when not knowing at least another foreign language may transform you in a handicapped person. There are several solutions to the problem of understanding each other when using different languages, such as using translators or translations, offering the status of a global language to one of the nowadays languages – thing that has already happened without even noticing- or, simpler, trying to teach the man to fish instead of giving him food once, meaning adopting adequate special policies so as to encourage teaching and learning foreign languages. As a matter of fact, the language that has become a global or international language is English, and this status was brought along by at least two essential factors: the expansion of the colonial Britis