English Business Communication and Soft skills became the necessary basis for doing business in the global digital era. Wherever business communication fails, the business loses money and becomes a failing business. Therefore the real-world communication cases for Professional and Business English should be the main focus of corporate training and university teaching.
Eventually, as teachers and trainers, we are supposed to get our students and clients prepared for the real-world scenarios of online communication, which is a basic acceptable level for Business Communication these days. Bringing students into the curriculum building process makes them co-own the learning responsibility and increases the involvement and satisfaction from the course, it works at corporate classes, language schools/departments and even in universities with strictly licensed curriculums.
In order to fight the possible uncertainty and impostor syndrome, getting to know who the students are and what exactly are their learning goals does help to create a crafted, authentic course. The problem with Teaching Professional English is always to understand and more importantly to make stakeholders and end-users understand that you are not supposed to be a certified Software Engineer, HR specialist or MD in Pediatrics to teach the specialists business communication tactics or practice how to use the immediate real-life situations and sources as learning leverage.
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Dear Yuliya,
Very practical discussion.
But the solution is very very problematic.
Learning any language to communicate for our daily needs is one thing.
And,
The language for a particular purpose is different.
I mean , we can learn English for communicating by a process and we need practice to speak.
But, whenever we think related to a particular subject based language, basically English , the terms used are totally different.
Each subject has its special terms.
Medical persons use medical terminology, Physics people use Physics terminology and so on.
It is not possible to know all these for any person ( I feel ).
Similarly, for business, there are different terminologies.
All the terms are there in 12 Vol vast Oxford Dictionary.
So, I think , there is a problem . This is for any language.
Thanks
N Das
Dear Yuliya,
Very practical discussion.
But the solution is very very problematic.
Learning any language to communicate for our daily needs is one thing.
And,
The language for a particular purpose is different.
I mean , we can learn English for communicating by a process and we need practice to speak.
But, whenever we think related to a particular subject based language, basically English , the terms used are totally different.
Each subject has its special terms.
Medical persons use medical terminology, Physics people use Physics terminology and so on.
It is not possible to know all these for any person ( I feel ).
Similarly, for business, there are different terminologies.
All the terms are there in 12 Vol vast Oxford Dictionary.
So, I think , there is a problem . This is for any language.
Thanks
N Das
Please find the article that follows the 32 IATEFL Business English Conference presentation on this matter (the text is now available). The discussion is still on, so feel free to ask more questions
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Mauro Luisetto, Mohaned Abd Alrahman, Nityananda Das
Interesting question Yuliya Shtaltovna . Would be interested to know as well.
Md Atikur Rahaman I tried to summarize my conference talk on this topic here - Preprint How to make it REAL? Real-world cases for Business and Profe...
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