Revisiting the Concept of Communication in Business English. Some Implications on Teaching Communicative Skills

• Authors: Romanowski Piotr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The major aim of the present paper is to discuss the skills relevant in the process of communication in Business English, which prove to differ enormously from those worked on in General English courses. It also becomes evident that the intercultural component is essential and learners should not only have a chance to become familiar with the cultural information related to the language they are studying, but also possess and develop a certain degree of intercultural awareness and sensitivity since they are de-manded from any businessmen communicating at the criss-cross of cultures. Last but not least, teaching Business English communicative skills is seen as a process of working creatively with the business content supplied by the students that we as teachers of English then shape in terms of its language.

Keywords

EN

Business English; ESP; Linguistic competence; communicative competence

• Publisher: Instytut Komunikacji Specjalistycznej i Interkulturowej
• Journal: Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 65-76

Dates

online

2015

Contributors

author

Romanowski Piotr

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

ISSN

2080-4814