Key Issues Concerning the Simultaneous Development of Technical and Linguistic Competences in a Single E-module

Due to global communication systems, the borders are no longer important, and knowledge can be spread over continents, countries, cultures and languages. Sharing knowledge with people all over the world is one of the challenges of the project ELLEIEC, which objective is to establishing a Virtual Centre of Entrepreneurship (VCE), offering e-learning courses (in foreign languages) for developing entrepreneurial skills and competencies. Elearning courses provide learners with the opportunity for developing technical and linguistic competences in a single emodule. In the development phase, we encountered four “variables”, which need to be harmonized in the best possible way to enable a successful learning process: professional content, e-learning environment, foreign language and different cultures. The main part of the paper focuses on the analysis of cultural and linguistic influences on designing and implementing an e-learning module.