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Welcome to the BESIG World Blog. Each month we’ve got a different guest author lined up who will be sharing thoughts and experiences on teaching business English from countries around the globe.
The BESIG World Blog welcomes Chia Suan Chong. Chia is a General English teacher, Business English teacher and teacher trainer at International House in London. She is a twitter addict, an active blogger and a regular at ELT conferences.
Chia presented an online weekend workshop on Politeness and Pragmatics in ELF in February 2012 (recording available here for members). This weekend workshop was very well-received by the fifty-five participants from sixteen countries who attended and also generated a lot of comment and discussion in the blogosphere about how politeness varies from culture to culture and how we, as Business English teachers, should be raising our learners´ awareness of how to interact "politely" in order to be successful international communicators.
In this interview, Chia gives us some more insights into politeness, pragmatics and ELF in the context of Business English and gives us a preview of the presentation she´ll be giving ...
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Our first ever BESIG World Blogger Andreas Grundtvig is back. In this post he shares how presenting at the 2010 BESIG Bielefeld conference has helped him professionally and talks about creativity and Multiple Intelligences in the business English classroom.
Andreas' questions to you are:
How do you animate your class?
How do you tackle creativity in the classroom?
What do you do in the classroom to appeal to the more creative side of learners?
How do you convince your business English students that what you're doing is going to help them?
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Motivating Business English learners is often a challenge. Interrupting the work you need to get done by the end of the day to come to class, having to get to work two hours before your shift starts for class or coming to class because your boss has told you that you have to: these are among the circumstances which can have a negative effect on our learners´ motivation. As Business English teachers, however, we are very understanding of these circumstances. We do everything in our power to motivate: we negotiate clear and achievable learning goals with our course participants and then give them indicators of the progress they are making toward these goals. We vary the types of activities we give them, bring in some new technology- “Did you know that you can download this vocabulary app on your smartphone and use it to practice your English while ...
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