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Name: Icy Chen

ID: 10022607

Advisor: Patricia

Date: April.19th.2012

ESP Journal of Business

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Designing Consciousness-Raising Tasks for an Economics

English Course ( April 2007)

A Discourse Analysis Of Business Letters Written By

Iranians

& Native Speakers (June 2006)

Sino-Finnish E-Mail Project A Teaching Tool for Tertiary

Business Communication Course (September 2005)

3 Journals

03Designing Consciousness-Raising

Tasks for an Economics English Course

C-R: ownership, responsibility, autonomy and

empowerment

Activity: Group A → relatively fluent in oral English

Group B → interested in Economics rather than

language learning

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RC

ownership

responsibility

autonomy

empowerment

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Group A Group B

Team Teaching

06Result

Phrases using correctly.

Not sure what the verb was even after checking the meaning.

The learners still need more time to be noticed, digested and

processed.

07A Discourse Analysis Of Business Letters

Written By Iranians & Native Speakers

Iranian business letter-writers focused on surface linguistic

aspects of English language while pragmatic aspects of

language, such as using politeness strategies, were ignored in

their letter writing.

Differences between English business letters written by

Iranian writers and those written by English native speakers.

08Methodology 50 business letters exchanged .

Iranian England

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Both EN and NNI enjoyed nearly the sane lexical may not be

considered as a significant factor in creating barriers to

communication.

Result

10Sino-Finnish E-Mail Project A Teaching Tool for

Tertiary Business Communication Course

English Business Communication has traditionally been a staple course of tertiary EFL business curriculum.

Widespread use of E-mail

The purpose of the present paper → to introduce a Sino-Finnish e-mail exchanged project conducted between~

Shandong University, China

Vaasa University, Finland

11The types of Business

letters, telexes and faxes

Personal emailsletters

Academicemails

Commercialemails

Telexesfaxes

Business letters faxes

Legal documents

12Conclusion

English as the lingua franca of international business

communication is used more between non-native English

speakers than native speakers.

International e-mail project have been used increasingly

and beneficially in communication and language

education.

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06Reflection

Technology → Globalization

Information receiving → Efficient learning