Scenario Method in Teaching Foreign Languages for Tourism

Abstract

Tourism-oriented communication occurs between foreign guests and employees as well as among employees. Communication in tourism frequently takes place in a foreign language and requires foreign language skills for employees. Since tourism is an interdisciplinary sector consisting of a wide variety of branches and professions, in addition to four basic language skills, social, cultural, communicative, and personal qualities are among the objectives of the tourism-oriented foreign language course. Thus, a vocational foreign language course for tourism should be designed with a perspective including communicative, interactive, and social methods and techniques. Although it has been stated that communicative method and intercultural approach yield positive results for the above-mentioned goals, the scenario method stands out to transform language skills into life experience with its professional dimension. In this study, theoretical information about the scenario method and an example for teaching foreign languages for tourism are presented.