AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH ON BUILDING KNOWLEDGE CONSOLIDATION ROUTINE IN LSP TEACHING - A CASE STUDY ON ECONOMICS STUDENTS IN ROMANIA

Considering the constant concern expressed by worldwide policy makers and regulatory bodies in the education sector for the need to adjust learners’ knowledge, skills and competencies in an attempt to meet the 21st century challenges, one could no longer consider learning effective unless it is voluntary, self-motivated and a lifelong practice. For a long time now, teaching has gone beyond the bare conveyance of information, with the educators permanently striving to apply modern teaching methods and strategies, to ensure relevant and sensitive content, to not overlook students’ learning profile and to include relevant global social issues in all their teaching. This paper researches and presents a case study showing relevant data on students’ individual consolidation habits in terms of: students’ motivation to continuous self-improvement, frequency of self-study activities, preferred method/activity and desire to improve, against the author’s endeavour to raise students’ awareness of the importance of building self-study habits. The paper foregrounds the exploitation of conceptual and applied methods in LSP teaching, with the purpose of enhancing students’ predilections towards individual consolidation of newly-acquired knowledge. The beneficiary target group consists of first-year Economics students from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies - ASE, Romania, majoring in Management and Finance and Banking.