Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chan, Mable

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000894165
• Artikelnr.: 68030269

Autorenporträt

Mable Chan (PhD, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK) is currently Associate Head at the Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her main research interests include second language acquisition at the interface with language education and professional/workplace communication. She has published widely in these areas and secured key external grants from the University Grants Committee (GRF) and the Standing Committee of Language Education and Research (SCOLAR).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Workplace communicative competence: On the value of pragmatic and
interactional skills for English-speaking professionals
Christopher Jenks
2. Communicative needs of Chinese professionals in Hong Kong and
pedagogical implications
Mable Chan
3. Struggles with BELF communication: Workers' perceptions of communicative
practices at a multinational corporation in Japan
Junko Saito
4. The big technology disruptor: Changes in the way we are communicating in
English at work in Asian workplaces
Jane Lockwood
5. Exploring L2 learners' use of communicative strategies: Implications for
designing communicative tasks from a (B)ELF perspective
Jim Yee Him Chan and Ivy Wing Shan Chan
6. Digital literacies for virtual meetings: Exploring new challenges
experienced by university business students
Xiaoyu Xu
7. Workplace Spoken Communication in English: Its status for graduate
employees in Malaysia
Glenda Crosling, Munir Shuib, Siti Norbaya Azizan and Graeme Atherton
8. Teaching oral presentations at work: Bridging the gap between textbooks
and workplaces
Phoenix W. Y. Lam
9. Challenges facing Thai professionals when giving English presentations
Krich Rajprasit
10. Learning workplace language in a vocational educational setting
Jean Parkinson and Averil Coxhead
11. Genre analysis of persuasive texts: Sales correspondence, invitations
and charity appeals, and pedagogical implications
Mable Chan
Index