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Business Track
Business Track classes provide language instruction and training in
business communication, including business correspondence, negotiations,
formal presentations, informal networking, business vocabulary, report
and proposal writing, vocabulary for professional purposes, and reading
for professional purposes.
Language skills addressed include: Listening, fluency development,
oral intelligibility, reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary development.
Business Track Classes
- Oral Business Communications (Listening/Speaking, Level IV)
This introductory course is designed to help students develop their oral/aural
communication skills in a basic business context. Listening, fluency, and
organization skills are practiced through role-playing, group discussions,
oral interviews, and oral presentations. Oral intelligibility instruction
focuses on the suprasegmentals (intonation, stress, rhythm, linking, volume,
gestures) and fluency development
- Advanced Oral Business English (Listening/Speaking, Level
V)
This advanced course is designed to develop advanced students' oral/aural
communication skills in a business context. Listening, intelligibility, organization
and problem solving techniques are practiced through role-playing, group
discussions, oral interviews, oral presentations, special group projects,
and introductory case study activities. Oral intelligibility instruction
focuses on the suprasegmentals (intonation, stress, rhythm, linking, volume,
gestures) and fluency development.
- Written Business Communications (Reading/Writing, Level IV)
This introductory course addresses reading and writing in a business context.
Writing assignments simulate actual business communications -- letters, memos,
informal, progress and status reports, telexes, proposals, case studies etc.
In addition to the business course text, reading materials include The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, business magazines,
such as Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week. Reading
instruction focuses on understanding vocabulary through context and scanning
for specific information.
- Advanced Written Business English (Reading/Writing, Level
V)
The course is designed to introduce students to formal business writing,
including trip, progress and status reports; short and long proposals and
case studies. In addition, each student will complete one final technical
report on a subject related to his/her career or study. The report will include
an abstract, final table of contents, figures and references. Both format
and content will be addressed in class. Pre-requisite for this class is Written
Business English.
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