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16918 - BUSINESS ENGLISH

Academic Year 2023/2024

                
                        Docente:
                        Paola Scalzotto
                    
                        Credits:
                        3
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Forli
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Management and Economics (cod. 5892)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Sep 21, 2023 to Dec 04, 2023

Learning outcomes

This course introduces students to the use of English in business. By the end of the course students are able to: (a) understand the main ideas of different types of texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in the field of economics and management; (b) interact with a good degree of fluency and spontaneity, highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences, supporting their views by providing relevant explanations and arguments; (c) expand their vocabulary range and accuracy to communicate effectively on common, concrete and business-related topics. The course is part of the integrated course “Business English and Cultural Management” that would like to enable students to effectively work in teams both thanks to specific linguistic competences (acquired in the course “Business English)” and cultural ones (in the course “Cross Cultural Management”).

Course contents

Business emailing and phone calls; Language for business meetings; negotiating a deal and cultural implications;Customer service; Competition; advertising; networking; leadership; statistics and trends: discussing trends, graphs and charts; small talk; problem solving; presentations; company profiles.

Readings/Bibliography

No specific textbook will be used. Material coming from the real world, such as company profiles and presentations, articles and videos from economic and financial newspapers and magazines, company performance analyses, etc.

Teaching methods

Interactive, student-focused teaching methods: students should actively participate in communication tasks, such as role-plays, brainstorming, discussions, text analysis. There will be a combination of grammar with business language together with the cultural implications of the different structures. This method aims at helping students boost their communication skills in multicultural contexts. This course will be strictly connected with the Cross-Cultural Management course. Attendance to both Business English and Cross-Cultural Management courses is highly recommended.