scholarly journals An Empirical Study on Application of Frequent Quizzes to Business English Courses

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 936-941
Author(s):  
Ping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Study Results ◽  
English Majors ◽  
Business Knowledge

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of frequent quizzes applied to subject-based business English courses designed for students in Sichuan University of Arts and Science in China. Besides, this study investigates students’ views on design, administration, optimizing of quizzes. A total of fourteen quizzes were administered in the teaching practice of a business English course called International Settlement and Documentation, which was offered to two classes of business English majors in one semester. Then, a questionnaire survey was conducted online and 45 students responded to the questionnaire. Findings and analyses were based on the 45 respondents’ feedback. The study results show that the students had a positive attitude to the application of quizzes on the whole and the quizzes were effective to a large extent in facilitating their acquisition of relevant business knowledge and language items. The vast majority of students were satisfied with the amount of items in quizzes and administration of quizzes. What needs to be improved on in their views focused on diversity of question types. Recommendations on application of frequent quizzes to English teaching, future research and optimizing quizzes were put forward in the end.

scholarly journals Research on the Cultivation of Innovative Entrepreneurship Ability of Business English majors under the Background of Internet

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 04021
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Yin
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Business English ◽  
High Quality ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ability ◽  
English Majors ◽  
English Major ◽  
Internet Business

With the development of social economy and Internet technology, the demand for business English professionals has improved significantly. Business English major is mainly to train applied high-quality technical talents for the society, so we should pay attention to the practical ability of the students. Under the background of the era of “Internet”, business English education should pay attention to the cultivation of students’ innovative and entrepreneurial ability, and explore more ways to cultivate the ability of combining innovative entrepreneurial practice with business English teaching.

scholarly journals The Modularized Construction on Translation Competence for Business English Majors in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Jie Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Majors ◽  
Business Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Time

Translation competence has been a heated topic in recent years. Yet, business English majors (BEMs), as non-translation bilingual majors, also need training in translation competence. The paper intends to construct translation competence for BEMs through four modules: schema based on business knowledge; information types; cognitive thinking and post-editing based on machine translation. By integrating these four modules, the translation competence can be improved in a relatively short teaching time for BEMs.

scholarly journals IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL THEORIES TEACHING IN COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEI CHEN
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Business English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Expression ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
English Majors ◽  
Social Adaptability ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Innovation Ability

Comprehensive Business English course is a comprehensive language practice skills course, which integrates English language knowledge, communication ability, cultural background knowledge and business knowledge. By imitating English materials in different kinds of business and cultural scenes, students can get familiar with English expression habits, cultivate English critical thinking and master fundamental English oral expression ability; by learning different subjects, students' vocabulary and discourse reading comprehension ability are to be enhanced and the basic discourse expression ability and a good foundation for the third and fourth grade English learning are to be improved. Our university, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, is a university of finance and economics with the striking characteristic of wealth management. We have the integration and development of students’ business English. Comprehensive business English is a compulsory course for the first and second year of business English majors, with small classes about 30 students in each. The courses for English majors are all business-related, most of them aim to work in business-related fields or study for master degree domestically or overseas after graduation. Business-English teaching aims to cultivate students with strengthened basic English listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills, relevant theories and knowledge of linguistics, economics, management and other studies, business operation mode and norms, good moral cultivation, social adaptability and innovation ability, and finally and most possibly the Applied Business English professionals. This paper, designed on the study and introduction of the present ideological and political theories teaching of Comprehensive Business English, is to discuss about the application of ideological and political teaching in the very basic course for Business English majors. By finding the ideological and political teaching topics and resources, it is to discover the proper, positive and critical means of applying theories in practice.

Task-Based Flipped Classroom in Chinese College EFL Teaching: An Empirical Study in Oral English Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumin Wang ◽  
Changjiang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Efl Teaching

As a new teaching model, the flipped classroom inverts the sequence of imparting knowledge and internalizing knowledge. On the basis of flipped classroom concept and previous empirical research, the present study is intended to construct task-based college EFL flipped classroom model and put it into Chinese college oral English teaching practice. The design of the study involves contrastive experiments, questionnaires and in-depth interview. The results suggest that the task-based flipped classroom teaching model has a remarkably better effect on boosting students’ communicative competence of English.

Moderating Role of Gender in the Relationship between Cognitive Errors and Anxiety among Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Tasnim Rehna ◽  
Rubina Hanif ◽  
Muhammad Aqeel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Adolescent Psychopathology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Adolescent Anxiety ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Status ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Widespread social paradigms on which the status variances are grounded in any society, gender plays pivotal role in manifestation of mental health problems (Rutter, 2007). A hefty volume of research has addressed the issue in adults nonetheless, little is vividly known about the role of gender in adolescent psychopathology. Sample: A sample of 240 adolescents (125 boys, 115 girls) aging 12-18 years was amassed from various secondary schools of Islamabad with the approval of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), relevant authorities of the schools and the adolescents themselves. Instruments: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (Taylor & Spence, 1953) and Children’s Negative Cognitive Errors Questionnaire (CNCEQ) by Leitenberg et al., (1986) were applied in present study. Results: Multiple regression analysis revealed that cognitive errors jointly accounted for 78% of variance in predicting anxiety among adolescents. Findings also exhibited that gender significantly moderated the relationship between cognitive errors and adolescent anxiety. Implications of the findings are discoursed for future research and clinical practice.

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Borislav Marušić ◽  
Sanda Katavić-Čaušić
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Business English ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
English Syntax ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online. It is an empirical study on the corpus taken from a variety of business magazines online. The empirical analysis allows a comprehensive insight into the word class adjective in this variety of Business English and makes its contribution to English syntax, semantics and word formation. The syntactic part analyses the adjective position in the sentence. The semantic part of the study identifies the most common adjectives that appear in English business magazines online. Most of the analysis is devoted to the word formation of the adjectives found in the corpus. The corpus is analysed in such a way that it enables its division into compounds, derivatives and conversions. The results obtained in this way will give a comprehensive picture of the word class adjective in this type of Business English and can act as a starting point for further research of the word class adjective.

scholarly journals Using Production-Oriented Approach in Business English Courses: Perceptions of China’s English-Major and Non-English-Major Undergraduates

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110165
Author(s):  
Qing Xie
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Business English ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Curriculum Adaptation ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
English Majors ◽  
English Major ◽  
Oriented Approach

In light of pedagogical innovation, this study reports a two-stage survey with 172 participants from English-major and non-English-major programs on their needs of production-oriented approach and perceptions of effective implementation strategies in business English courses at a Chinese university. The results of the study suggest that while the two student groups used different learning methods, both valued communication with native speakers. While the two groups had different needs in business English reading, writing, and speaking activities, they also preferred listening to business news broadcasts. The two groups liked learning in case studies and case-based methodology. Based on the needs, a production-oriented teaching procedure is designed. For teaching activities, the students preferred simulation and role-play. As to their favorite teaching and learning materials, English-majors mentioned English news reading and videos, whereas non-English-majors liked theme-based reading materials. For curriculum adaptation and post-course practice, they suggested using communicative activities and more recent cases. The majority of the groups considered the teaching activities, materials, and activities as effective. Based on the different needs and perceptions, effective and tailored implementation strategies for a production-oriented approach in business English courses for the two student groups at this Chinese university context are suggested. Informed by production-oriented pedagogical theories, the results of the study may have significant implications for business English teaching reform and theoretical development in Chinese universities as well as other cultural and education settings in further innovating and refining the teaching and learning process.

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