Online Business English Teachers Training Program
The online Business English Teaching Certification program launched by TEFL Academy is comprehensive and exhaustive from the perspective of content, design, structure and research. With a strong focus on Business English as one of the significant members of the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) the utility of the course would range from in-service adults to pre-service students. The course aims at qualifying candidates to Teaching Business English with developed understanding of the professional skills, effective classroom methodology for the target audience in highly specified context.
Duration and Course Content
The 60-hour curriculum of BETT gives you useful methods and proficiency to improve your spoken communication skills in English in different business situations.
PHASE I - Introduction to Business English features and components
The Learner
The teaching context
The teacher
The language
Communication techniques
Communicative Language teaching
The Business English Professional Skills
PHASE II - Need Analysis
Needs
Motivation
Adjusting expectations
PHASE III
Course Design
Course/syllabi type
Interpreting need analysis
Translating needs and wishes to course content
PHASE IV - Lesson Planning
Ingredients of the lesson plan
Objectives to modeling to practice
Timing and variety
PHASE V - The Client Approach
Adult, personal and professional
Differing roles for the teacher e.g. coach, consultant facilitator
Results orientation
PHASE VI - Feedback and Evaluation
Different types
Importance for motivation and accountability
Ongoing negotiation of course content
The Business English - Methodology
PHASE VII - Approaches to learning
Acquisition vs. learning
Learner-centered
Task-based
Self-access learning
Input and output
PHASE VIII - Classroom Management
Creating rapport sensitivity to needs
Modeling instructions
Creating interactive activity
Varying activities
Being a facilitator
PHASE IX - Materials and adaptation
The Business English material
Adaptation of authentic materials for the classroom
Materials development or compilation to meet clients needs
Adaptation of existing textbooks to the clients needs
The basic business concepts and practice
PHASE X - Teaching Business Speaking
Business communication related
Socializing related
PHASE XI - Teaching Business Writing
Technicalities of Business Writing
The daily basic business writing
