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.
Featuring contributions from both established and emerging researchers in the field, this book brings together research findings on business and workplace English pedagogy with a focus on addressing issues and challenges around spoken communicative needs in the workplace. The volume explores spoken communication in the business context across a diverse range of settings and media, including oral presentations, small talk, meetings, business negotiations, and interviews. Taken together, the book offers an up-to-date synthesis of research on key topics at the intersection of spoken workplace communication and language teaching toward facilitating more engaged, empirically grounded business English as a lingua franca teaching.
This book will be of particular interest for students and scholars in business communication, workplace communication, and English for specific purposes.
Edited by:
Mable Chan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367485016
ISBN 10: 036748501X
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 13 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
Reviews for Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century
This excellent volume is essential reading for anyone wanting an up to date understanding of the teaching of English for business. The research includes in-depth exploration of authentic texts with exploration of genre, based on data from the workplace in a range of contexts, including emerging areas like online discourse. The focus is on teaching workplace communication with emphasis on communicative and interactional competence. By interrogating the language of business in classrooms, in text, in teaching materials and in the workplace itself, this volume is comprehensive in its approach to bridging theory and practice. - Professor Melinda Whong, Associate Professor and Director, Centre fore Language Education, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
