Search results for "business English"

Power and language in a multicultural workplace

2015

Today’s work markets are increasingly shaped by the multilingual reality. The present research offers an intercultural communication perspective on language diversity and power relations at modern work environment. Study investigates how young professionals and their foreign colleagues perceive diversity affecting in their communicative behaviours in culturally heterogeneous workplace. Analysis of data from participants has been conducted through an analysis of open ended self‐report questionnaire in a multinational company where English is used daily as a corporate language. In particular, results of present study indicate that more diverse language skills are attributed to perception of p…

Mācību modelis WebQuest augstāko domāšanas prasmju pilnveides atbalstam 11. klases biznesa angļu valodas stundās

2017

Skolas vadība motivēja Diplomdarba autoru mācību laikā izmantot modernās tehnoloģijas, bet darba autoram bija grūtības atrast jēgpilnu veidu kā tās iekļaut ikdienas mācību stundās. Tajā pat laikā, tika novērots, ka skolēniem ir grūtības pielietot augstākās domāšanas prasmes stundās. Lai risinātu augstāk minētās problēmas tika nolemts pielietot mācību modeli WebQuest augstāko domāšanas prasmju pilnveides atbalstam. Pētījuma metode bija gadījuma pētījums Babītes vidusskolā no 2016. gada septembra līdz 2016. gada decembrim un tajā piedalījās trīspadsmit 11. klases skolēni. Pētījuma laikā tika analizēts biznesa angļu valodas standarts, izstrādāta anketa skolēniem, kuru viņi aizpildīja, izveidot…

Affordances of telecollaboration tools for English for Specific Purposes online learning

2016

This paper explores students' perceptions of the affordances of different telecollaboration tools used in an innovation project for English for Specific Purposes online learning carried out between the University of Valencia (Spain) and Wofford College (South Carolina, United States) during the school year 2015-2016. Different tools for synchronous and asynchronous communication were used. The asynchronous tools included a discussion forum, a wiki, social networking websites and Google forms; while the tools used for synchronous communication were text, voice and video chat, videoconferencing tools and Google Drive. All the tools were accessible through the online platform used in the proje…

Giménez Moreno, Rosa (ed.). (2010). Words for Working. Professional and Academic English for International Business and Economics

2011

Gimenez Moreno, Rosa (ed.). (2010). Words for Working. Professional and Academic English for International Business and Economics. Valencia. Universitat de Valencia (PUV). Coleccion: Educacio. Laboratori de Materials 28. Pages: 400. ISBN: 978-84-370- 7873-1 There are many ways in which one can sell and it is certainly one of the most important aspects of business to be able to place a product successfully in the market. From a creative and editorial point of view a telling title is similarly weighty and this book fulfils that premise: a hand-book whose very title calls the attention of the prospective reader/user by underlining its operative quality. Words to work with, operative language, …

Are We Really Teaching English for Specific Purposes, or Basic English Skills? The Cases of Turkey and Latvia

2018

English for specific purposes (ESP) has evolved as an important sub-field of English language education to meet the career-related needs of non-native speakers of English in a wide variety of contexts. As such, ESP instruction in specialized subject areas ranging from vocational (e.g., tourism and hospitality) to professional (e.g., international law or banking) to academic (e.g., thesis and dissertation writing) is often integrated in the training and degree programs offered at higher education institutions. However, the ability of these institutions to provide adequate ESP instruction has often been called into question, with critics indicating that insufficient resources and planning, la…

THIRD GENERATION LEARNING IN BUSINESS ENGLISH

2016

Third generation learning in Business English is a tool increasing students’ life-long competences and achievements. Business English today is about communication where the content and the communicative competences- linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic are of crucial importance.  The article reflects the results of 3rd generation learning in Business English in post-secondary institution in Latvia where students using team-based learning in the classroom mastered their language skills and communicative competences to achieve an academic success.

The changing role of the English language in Finland : The role of English from the point of view of entrepreneurs in the metal industry in Southern …

2016

Englannin kielen käyttö yleisenä yhteisenä kielenä, lingua francana, on lisääntynyt niin maailmalla kuin Suomessakin erityisesti muutaman viimeisen vuosikymmenen aikana. Globalisaation myötä muutos on ollut kiivasta myös yritysmaailmassa. Ulkomaalaisen työvoiman käyttö Suomessa, esimerkiksi rakennus- ja metallialalla, on lisääntynyt, minkä johdosta englannin kielen käyttö yhteisenä kielenä metallialan yrityksissä on selvästi kasvanut. Työyhteisöjen lisääntynyt englannin kielen käyttö ei siis koske vain suomalaisia monikansallisia yrityksiä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, kuinka aikanaan 1970- ja 1980-luvuilla ammattikoulupohjaisella tai pelkällä peruskoulupohjaisella koulutu…

Biznesa angļu valodas mācīšana individuāli

2015

Mūsdienās arvien vairāk pieaug pieprasījums pēc svešvalodu mācīšanās, arī biznesa angļu valodas apguves. Šajā bakalaura darbā tiek petīta individuālā biznesa angļu valodas apmācība, kontekstā ar angļu valodu īpašiem mērķiem. Šī pētījuma mērķis ir izveidot individuālo biznesa angļu valodas mācību materiālu, saskaņā ar apmācāmā studenta konkrētajām vajadzībām. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiek izklāstīts angļu valodas īpašiem mērķiem koncepts, aprakstītas individuāla mācību plāna izveides metodes, kā arī valodas prasmju integrēšana biznesa angļu valodas uzdevumos. Darba praktiskajā daļā tiek veikta gadījuma izpēte kā kvalita…

Teamwork as an interactional resource : a case study of a seller-buyer negotiation

2000

“Learning from real life and not books”: A gamified approach to Business English task design in transatlantic telecollaboration

2017

This paper deals with task design in the context of a telecollaboration project which was carried out in a Business English course among students from Spain and the United States. The goal was to provide students with opportunities to develop linguistic, intercultural and digital competences by interacting and collaborating online with native speakers of the target language. A task-based approach was adopted and enriched by gamification, the different tasks being designed with a view towards engaging students intrinsically in the learning process. This was achieved by means of the adoption of gamification strategies and techniques such as the use of points, performance graphs, quests, avata…