Business English Assignment
BUSINESS ENGLISH TASK ASSIGNMENT
Evaluate these statements: 1. Business English is very serious and goal-directed, unlike General English where the teachers can have more fun. Corporate trainers must have a different approach to teaching and use different techniques in the classroom. 2. There is no such thing as Business English All that it means is ordinary English used in a business environment with some specialised vocabulary added to make it specific to that workplace. After all, accountants, salespeople and designers all communicate in the same language.
Write a few paragraphs expressing your own ideas on each of these statements.
The two quoted statements invite one to assess the similarities and differences between General English and Business English courses, statement 1 stressing the differences and statement 2 the similarities. I shall begin by examining statement 1 in some detail and try to assess how fundamental the differences in teaching methodologies are. My comments on statement 2 will be more brief as much of what I say about statement 1 will, not surprisingly, be an implicit comment on statement 2 also. Although any assessment I make may be wide of the mark for lack of experience in teaching Business English, it will become apparent that my sympathies lie more with the second author who stresses the elements common to both kinds of teaching, even though there is clearly something to be said for both sides in this debate.
Setting aside the implication that Business English is a more serious affair than General English (with which I disagree), statement 1 implies that the corporate trainer must differ fundamentally from other English teachers in both teaching methods and specific techniques. Although the writer is correct in identifying differences between these two kinds of course, I think these are differences in emphasis that result from employing common techniques in different contexts.
Chapter 3 of the course manual on the
Evaluate these statements: 1. Business English is very serious and goal-directed, unlike General English where the teachers can have more fun. Corporate trainers must have a different approach to teaching and use different techniques in the classroom. 2. There is no such thing as Business English All that it means is ordinary English used in a business environment with some specialised vocabulary added to make it specific to that workplace. After all, accountants, salespeople and designers all communicate in the same language.
Write a few paragraphs expressing your own ideas on each of these statements.
The two quoted statements invite one to assess the similarities and differences between General English and Business English courses, statement 1 stressing the differences and statement 2 the similarities. I shall begin by examining statement 1 in some detail and try to assess how fundamental the differences in teaching methodologies are. My comments on statement 2 will be more brief as much of what I say about statement 1 will, not surprisingly, be an implicit comment on statement 2 also. Although any assessment I make may be wide of the mark for lack of experience in teaching Business English, it will become apparent that my sympathies lie more with the second author who stresses the elements common to both kinds of teaching, even though there is clearly something to be said for both sides in this debate.
Setting aside the implication that Business English is a more serious affair than General English (with which I disagree), statement 1 implies that the corporate trainer must differ fundamentally from other English teachers in both teaching methods and specific techniques. Although the writer is correct in identifying differences between these two kinds of course, I think these are differences in emphasis that result from employing common techniques in different contexts.
Chapter 3 of the course manual on the