Business English
In this course, students will improve their English language communicative competence and develop speaking and writing business English skills to succeed in multicultural polylingual environment. The recommended level of language proficiency is English Independent User (B1, B2). The course is directly related to all other courses of the programme, such as Cross-Cultural Communication, where skills of business communication are encouraged. Also, it contributes to the final stage of the programme that is Thesis Writing and Defense.
The goal of mastering the discipline
To improve their English language communicative competence and develop speaking and writing business English skills to succeed in multicultural polylingual environment.
The skills you get
- to demonstrate written and oral use of native and foreign language(s) as a means of business communication
- • to produce written and oral presentations, reports, abstracts, etc. aiming to communicate the ideas of profession-related source texts
- • to properly employ the rules of communication in in the field of business and professional interaction
- • to explain a viewpoint on an issue that is professionally relevant giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options
- • to skillfully exercise the crosslingual disambiguation techniques in the context of business communication
- • to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity discussing the area of expertise
Topics covered
- Working life; Work-life balance; Projects; Services and systems; Customers; Guests and visitors; Working online
- Finance; Logistics; Facilities; Decisions; Innovation; Breakdowns; Processes; Performance
- Motivation at work; On schedule; New ideas; Ethical business; Making decisions; Outsourcing; Employees
- New business; Communications; Change; Data; Culture; Performance; Career breaks
When instructed
- 1st year, 1st and 2nd semester
- 2nd year, 1st and 2nd semester
List of references and sourses
1. J.Hughes, J.Naunton. Business Result / Oxford University Press. Intermediate / Upper-Intermediate.
2. M.Powell. Dynamic Presentation/ Cambridge University Press, 2010 Adrian Wallwork. English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar / Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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