Business-English (Be) Communication Teaching Shortcuts to Enrich Studentss Business Communication Skills for Their Differentiations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yota Chaivoramankul
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Titien Indrianti ◽  
Af’idatul Husniyah

English has been a language for international business. Thus, English instruction should be directed to teaching communication skills necessary for business. As a vocational institution, State Polytechnic of Malang is supposed to view its English instruction from the perspectives of the students and alumni. Thus, the present study is intended to investigate the students’ and alumni’s perspectives on the benefits of Business English as well as their recommendation for the course. The respondents of this study are students and alumni of Business Administration Department, State Polytechnic of Malang. To tap the data, questionnaires are deployed. The data, then, are analyzed employing descriptive statistics to obtain the most and least typical responses. Findings indicate that both students and alumni take the benefit of the course. They view this subject is to prepare for their career development in the workplace. Besides, it is beneficial for their communication at the office, particularly in foreign companies. Alumni claim that their business English knowledge and skills during their college time are applicable in their workplace.  The respondents mostly demand more practices on business communication skills and vocabulary teaching included in Business English courses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Budiarso

<em>In learning English, speaking ability is a very important aspect, especially for teachers. Implementation in class, the teachers are expected to be good facilitators and motivators so their students have increasingly spirit in learning. One of teaching method that can be applied is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The purpose of this research is to build motivation, creativity, and teacher’s ability of speaking business English. Using this teaching method can give new learning experiences to the teachers. This research is a classroom action research in Yayasan Islam Terpadu Mandiri Bojonggede Bogor. There are two schools, SMK Mandiri and SMP Islam Mandiri. The total number of teachers are 35 people. They are the object of this research. Methods of the research is descriptive with a qualitatif approach.  Data collection is done through observation and recording of scores from each research stage. The results of the research show an increase in English business communication skills which can be seen from the average scores.</em>


Author(s):  
Martini Martini

As a part of dissertaion research entitled “Developing A Model Of Business English Teaching Material For Students Of Politeknik Negeri Padang”. This article tells about the needs of Business English in workplaces from the graduate students persperctive. The information gottten can be used as inputs is designing Business English curriculum which in based on Link and Match concept between the needs of workplaces and educational institutions. A survey was done by spreading online questionnaires by using Google drive to the graduates of accounting department, who work for some companies in Indonesia. By using descriptive analysis, finding of the research obtains an overview that four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) are very impportant in business communication. It menas that they must be taught in Business English class. Next, it is also obtained that grammar, vocabulary, pronounciation, and translation are also very important to be taughy. Besides, this study can determine some business topics that are needed for Business English class.


Author(s):  
L. S. Pichkova

School of Business English prepare students for translation and abstracting economic texts, business correspondence and business communication originated in the late 1950s. Department of English Language № 2 pioneered the creation of the school of business English at MGIMO and made the largest contribution to its development. Developing and using the latest educational technology, actively participating in many innovative projects, responsive to changes in the economic and socio-political sphere and carefully studying the international experience, the Department has become the undisputed leader in language teaching profession. The emphasis is on the use of the advantages of a new method of object-language integrated learning, in which the program of teaching business English are built in close coordination with training programs on special subjects, and sometimes supplement them. Business games, round tables, student conferences in English have become long-term practice of the English Language № 2. Specialty permeates all stages and aspects of learning, including the common language practice.


1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Alan P. Wunsch ◽  
Chuck Tomkovick

Marketing educators have long recognized the need for strengthening their students' business communication skills. Recruiters routinely consider superior communica tions skills as essential hiring criteria when filling entry- level marketing positions. Additionally, marketing students consistently rate communication-intensive business courses as among those most helpful to them in preparing for their business careers. This paper discusses an undergraduate buyer-behavior course project targeted at improving stu dents' business communication skills through a team- teaching project. The paper highlights the value of integrating written, oral, and electronic communications pedagogy with buyer-behavior course instruction and then outlines the project from a "how-to-do-it" perspective.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Titien Indrianti

In the international business communication, English has become a medium of communication. To respond to such a global challenge, it is vital to equip students with Business English courses to prepare them to be more competitive worldwide. Nevertheless, studying Business English is quite problematic to many non-native learners since they have to focus both on the subject matter and the language. The present study is conducted to investigate the perspectives of the students and alumni on the Business English courses at the Business Administration Department, State Polytechnic of Malang. A survey on the second year students and the alumni was conducted. The questionnaires were distributed to elicit their views on the courses, as well as their recommendations. The existing English syllabuses and materials were collected to be overviewed. The findings indicate most students are in favor of the course. Their motivation and interest in the course are good that they make some attempts to support their Business English skills acquisition. The business English competences, like: business presentation, business meeting, business socializing, negotiation, business correspondence, and knowledge, like global business issues are of their benefits to prepare them to work and develop their career in the future. The alumni claim they apply the Business English knowledge and skills in their workplace. However, the level of the application is different following their job position in the workplace. The students’ proposals for the course are that it should be presented in a more fascinating way and business communication skills are more emphasized. Besides, global business materials and vocabulary in business are to be more inserted. The alumni recommend providing more business communication practices and vocabulary enrichment. Showing the formal and informal English usage is also necessary. Besides, character building related to business needs to be inserted.  The Business English syllabuses and materials were in line with the students’ and alumni’s expectation. The content and materials have already covered business knowledge and skills as expected by the stakeholder.


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