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The Future of Business Discourse Teaching

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Teaching Business Discourse

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This chapter will:

  • Explore ways in which new media and digital technologies are shaping business communication and highlight the importance of digital communicative competence for learners and teachers;

  • Discuss ways in which the digital workplace can be brought into the business discourse classroom;

  • Discuss the role of Business English and other business languages in international business and what this means for business discourse teaching;

  • Consider how the multicultural workplace can inform business discourse teaching;

  • Provide a case study that illustrates some of the above developments, together with a set of tasks appropriate for the business discourse classroom, and a set of further readings.

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  1. Strömstad Academy, Strömstad, Sweden

    Cornelia Ilie

  2. College of Business, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Catherine Nickerson

  3. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Brigitte Planken

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Ilie, C., Nickerson, C., Planken, B. (2019). The Future of Business Discourse Teaching. In: Teaching Business Discourse. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96475-1_2

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