Students’ Perceptions of Summarizing authentic EnglishAccounting Articles

The present paper brings to the fore both the difficulties and benefits of summarizing authentic English accounting articles. The need for this research stems from the necessity to raise consciousness upon mastering the art of summarizing that challenges accounting knowledge and English accounting vocabulary proficiency as well. The summarizing task is indeed a very useful tool in the teaching/learning process of English as a foreign language as it develops the skill of expressing the gist of an authentic English material which in our study is represented by accounting articles. The applied part of our research is based on a survey addressed to two hundred first year students at the Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. As the results show, all students perceive the article summary task as beneficial to their accounting English knowledge which is seen as a valuable asset for their future accounting careers.