Current Situation and Countermeasures of China's Business English Teaching Abstract:This paper analyzes the current situation of Business English teaching in our college, and especiallystudies the problems facing our teachers, which are howto attract students to take part in class activities, aswell as howto let students master basic language activity abilities that are really more important and useful inbusinessworld than they have thought, such as meeting new customers and using of telephone. And also,teachers should give students chances to be familiar with trade process in simulative circumstance. Accordingto the fact of Business English teaching in our college, the paper provides two suggestions. Key words:Business English English teaching We can find the explanation about InternationalBusiness English from the text materials of CambridgeBusiness English: International Business English is forbusiness people who need to, or will soon need to, useEnglish in their work. It may also be used by adult stu-dents whowill be enteringthe businessworld atthe end oftheir course of studies. In the past decade, International Business Englishhas played an important role in import and export trade inChina, and itwill still be vital to increase gross domesticproduct with Chinese foreign economic development, es-pecially after China’s entry into World Trade Organiza-tion. Therefore, our countrymusttrain adult studentswhocan use English well in business world in their futurejobs, and then this training task becomes the main dutyfor universities and colleges having Business English ma-jor. Business English has been a major in our college formany years. It is my pleasure that I can be a teacher inthis field and do what I can do. After nearly 10 months’Business English teaching in our college, I would like togive two suggestions in the paper. 1 The current situation of BusinessEnglish teaching in our college Our college is a kind of profession technical college.Therefore, the major duty of our college is to train profes-sional students who can use their knowledge in their jobsonce they graduate. That means, they not only have tounderstand various theories about English knowledge intheir minds, but also they have to master the abilities todo business with foreigners in English, such as theyshould use English to negotiate with partners and solve problems. It is obviously that doing business with cus-tomers in market to earn money is more important thanjust reciting and remembering the language’s theories inclass without using them. According to these basic re-quirements, our department chose the Cambridge BusinessEnglish textbooks as our primary materials that combinelanguage skills, which commonly we put it on the higherplace, and business knowledge. Besides the central text-books, we also use relative materials to improve studentsEnglish listening, speaking and writing, as well as busi-ness professional textbooks in Chinese. There are general-ly two parts in every class in Business English course, in-cluding knowledge impartment and skill training, whichgive students chances to master knowledge points and ex-ercise using them in simulative company. It has beenproved by the fact that it is a suitable way to train Busi-ness English, and has been accepted by most major stu-dents. 2 The problems we are facing |
