Course Name: Business English

Course Code: S2113041

Semester: 1

Credit: 2

Program:All

Course Module: Language & Social Science

Responsible: Changhua Liu

E-mail: ChanghuaLiu @tju.edu.cn

Department: School of Foreign Languages and Literature

TimeAllocation (1 credit hour = 45 minutes)

Course Description

Business English is a course for students reading for professional master degree. This is a language course that focuses on language skills, takes business skills as supplement and put practicalness and communicative together. As China is taking a further step into international economy and society, all trades and fields have an increasingly needs on talented business English persons. The business English course aims to develop business communication skills in English of students and expand their horizons of globalization. And at the same time, this course is going to laying a business foundation for the future work of the students. This course takes theNew Cambridge Business English (Advanced) as textbook and supplements plenty of explanation on business knowledge and skills. The knowledge includes management, trade, law, finance and accounting and other business activities, which would teach the students essential English words and grammars during business activities and English applied skills during contract, negotiation, letters and other business processes. According to the practice needs in business activities, the course develops from 4 aspects: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The themes of the course involve: job and career, corporation development, business communication, market strategy, staff management, corporation responsibilities, corporation innovation, global economics, and etc.

Pre-requisite

Not required.

Course Objectives

1. Understanding the practical needs of business and normal work environments, putting the real contents of international business activities into classroom, experiencing the real business world.

2. Familiar with the business-related concepts, convention, development and language formulation, fusion the business and language teaching deeply.

3. Acting different roles in simulation business activities, having an abundant experiential learning from the roles and case study.

Course Syllabus

1. Writing a survey report. (Personally, including questionnaire designing, data collecting and analyzing, summarizing and advising)

2. Oral report presentation. (Personally, according to the survey report)

3. Course project. (In team, including project selection, process designing, case study and role playing.

Textbooks & References

1. Zhenghua Xu, Changhua Liu, Wei Zou, Management and Business English, Tianjin University Press, 2005.

2. Hongmei Zhang,English Reading in International Business, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006.

3. Fengxiang Wen, Contemporary English Reading in International Business, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2007.

4. Lingli Yang,International Marketing Blunders, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2009.

5. Lijie Xu,Tutorial of Advanced Business English Reading, Southeast University Press, 2011.

Capability Tasks

CT1: To understand basic science, and to have analytical ability and the ability to integrate related knowledge.

CT9: To be competent for a job position in a company and have a good career path; To have sense of responsibility, teamwork spirit, cooperation and leadership capacity, project management capacity, and capacity of communicating and working with experts and non-experts, and carry out innovation management.

CT10: To have the capacity to work in international environment; the capability to master one or more foreign languages and be open to foreign cultures; be able to acclimatize themselves to the international language environment.

Achievements

• Proficient in English skills in academic reading and writing. –Level: M

Students: All Programs, Year 1