TEACHING BUSINESS ENGLISH: DO ENGLISH TEACHERS NEED TRAINING?

By:

NOR AINI BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN, ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MALAYSIA
&
FATIMAH BINTI ALI, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY MALAYSIA

English language teachers have to upgrade themselves constantly in order to keep up with the latest development in teaching the language. For English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers, the demand is even more pressing. Bearing that in mind, this paper investigates how Business English teachers equip themselves to teach Business English since Malaysian graduates with Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) degree are not specifically trained to teach Business English. To see how Business English instructors prepare themselves to teach the course, a set of questionnaire was distributed to forty-five course instructors from five public higher learning institutions in Malaysia. Results showed that the respondents employed various ways to teach the course.......

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Title: Teaching Business English
Approximate Word Count: 2952
Approximate Pages: 12 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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