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Direct linkCavaliere, Frank J.; Glasscock, Kip; Sen, Kabir C. – Education, 2014
Globalization has been one of the most important movements in business since the end of World War II. The business education establishment, as represented by the AACSB accreditation agency, has been struggling to get its member schools to properly prepare their graduates for this new global business environment. It has generally been conceded that…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Administration Education, Global Approach, English (Second Language)
Download full textWu, Yan – International Education Studies, 2013
This paper examines BELF (Business English as a Lingua Franca) teaching and researching in China. A literature review is conducted using the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. This survey includes a cursory literature search on BELF and a thorough literature study of 12 Chinese major academic journals. From the data collected…
Descriptors: Business English, Dialects, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
Zhu, Wenzhong; Liu, Dan – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Based on a review of the literature on ESP and needs analysis, this paper is intended to offer some theoretical supports and inspirations for BE instructors to develop BE curricula for business contexts. It discusses how the theory of need analysis can be used in Business English curriculum design, and proposes some principles of BE curriculum…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peters, Elke – Language Teaching Research, 2016
This study investigates whether congruency (+/- literal translation equivalent), collocate-node relationship (adjective-noun, verb-noun, phrasal-verb-noun collocations), and word length influence the learning burden of EFL learners' learning collocations at the initial stage of form-meaning mapping. Eighteen collocations were selected on the basis…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xianwei, Gao; Samuel, Moses; Asmawi, Adelina – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
This study explores Qzone weblog for critical peer feedback (CPF) in Business English writing (BEW) among the Chinese undergraduates. A qualitative case study is conducted by Nvivo 8 to analyze the three research data of semi-structured interviews, BEW writing assignments, and CPF artifacts on Qzone weblog. Three research questions are focused to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals
Gao, Xianwei; Samuel, Moses; Asmawi, Adelina – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2016
Qzone weblog is one of the most popular weblogs in China. This study explores Qzone weblog for critical peer feedback to facilitate Business English writing among the Chinese undergraduates. A qualitative case study is conducted by NVivo 8 to analyze the three research data of semistructured interviews, Business English writing assignments, and…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pratoomrat, Panadda; Rajprasit, Krich – English Language Teaching, 2014
The present study aimed to examine how Business English courses are conducted in the Thai Higher Education, and to investigate students' perceptions toward the instructional management of the courses in their universities. The participants were four instructors, and one hundred and forty students enrolling in the courses of four universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction
Fuertes-Olivera, Pedro A.; Cabello de Alba, Beatriz Perez – International Journal of English Studies, 2012
This article follows current research on English for Specific Business Purposes, which focuses on the analysis of contextualized business genres and on identifying the strategies that can be associated with effective business communication (Nickerson, 2005). It explores whether free internet dictionaries can be used for promoting effective…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Dictionaries, Internet, Business English
Trinder, Ruth – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
Although the influence of learner beliefs on performance and satisfaction in particular instructional contexts is uncontested, empirical studies have so far concentrated on students in various geographical rather than discipline-specific settings. Starting from the premise that tertiary sector ESP students may have more in common than their choice…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Business English, Business Administration Education, College Students
Bhatia, Vijay K.; Bremner, Stephen – Language Teaching, 2012
The concept of Business English has undergone some major shifts in the last few years because of a number of developments, such as advances in genre theory and the coming together of English for Business Purposes and Business Communication, inspired by the realization that there is a gap to be bridged between the academy and the globalized…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Business Communication, Business English, English (Second Language)
Winchester, Jules; Williams, Simon – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This paper aims to provide Business English and EAP practitioners with a rationale for including the analysis of narrative elements in business addresses in their language teaching in order to encourage critical thinking in learners. By studying these elements, and the rhetorical function of the narrative in particular, students can become more…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Corporations, Business English, Critical Thinking
Ngo, Thi Phuong Le – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A Virtual Resource Center (VRC) has been brought into use since 2008 as an integral part of a task-based language teaching and learning program for Business English courses at Nantes University, France. The objective of the center is to enable students to work autonomously and individually on their language problems so as to improve their language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis, Business Communication, Second Language Learning
Wenzhong, Zhu; Cheng, Zhang – English Language Teaching, 2013
Business English education concern is of great significance. Business English for International Trade in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) is widely acclaimed, and it is also a popular major. GDUFS has adopted the slogan "Learn from East and West, moral integrity and direct behavior". It is a famous cradle of learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study is to find out the features of English business letters. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics is used as the theoretical framework, mainly, interpersonal fucntion. The English business letter (EBL) is an important written text used for international business communication and it has its own features of text.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Letters (Correspondence), Business English, Interpersonal Competence
Zhengguo, Zhu; Lili, Lin; Wenzhong, Zhu – Higher Education Studies, 2016
In order to develop a more scientific education system of Business English courses, this paper studies the case of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS, one of Chinese top-three foreign language universities) by questionnaires. The result shows that: 1) Most of the students hope that the school could add more business courses in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Business English, English (Second Language)
