Business English Teachers
Business Authentic texts
http://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts, http://www.businessweek.com , http://www.economist.com and http://www.eubusiness.com
Finance
http://www.investopedia.com/
http://www.ft.com/home
Cambridge English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Examinations
Every year more than half a million people take Cambridge examinations in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). They take them in order to improve their employment prospects, to seek further education, to prepare themselves to travel or live abroad, or because they want an internationally recognised certificate showing the level they have attained in the language.
The Cambridge EFL examinations are known all over the world and are recognised by universities, employers and national education authorities in many countries. They are run by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) - one of the world's largest and best known educational assessment agencies. The examinations are linked to an international system of levels for assessing European languages.
Cambridge EFL examinations can be taken by anyone whose first language is not English. They are suitable for learners of all nationalities, whatever their first language and cultural background, and there are examinations suitable for learners of almost any age. The range of Cambridge EFL examinations includes specialist examinations in Business English and English for Academic Purposes, as well as tests for young learners and a suite of certificates and diplomas for language teachers.
The British Council
The BBC World Service
The BBC World Service Radio Station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
Learning English with the BBC
Learning English with the BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
ALTE (The Association of Language Testers in Europe)
ALTE is an association of institutions within Europe, each of which produces examinations and certification for language learners. Each member provides examinations of the language which is spoken as a mother tongue in their own country or region.
The concept of ALTE was initially formed by the Universities of Cambridge and Salamanca late in 1989, and at the first meeting of the association in 1990 there were eight founder members. Since then membership has grown so that there are now 27 members, representing 24 European languages.
EAQUALS
The European Association for Quality Language Services
Introduction
Founded in 1991, EAQUALS is a pan-European Association of language training providers aiming to promote and guarantee quality in modern language teaching institutions. To achieve these aims it has established and published a demanding set of criteria for membership. These are laid out in the form of a Code of Conduct, Student, Staff and Information Charters (ISBN 88-900072-0-6), and backed up by a rigorous inspection scheme.
Membership
Membership is open to private or state institutions which are involved in the delivery of quality language training or are, in some other way, committed to the achievement of excellence in this area.
One World
The One World organisation has links to over 120 organisations concerned with development and global justice.
IATEFL
The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
BESIG *Business English Special Interest Group)
BESIG is a truly professional body representing the interests and serving the needs of the international Business English teaching community. BESIG is an organisation for the Business English teaching profession. BESIG's members are mainly teachers of Business English and include both native and non-native speakers of English. The largest proportion of our members comes from Europe but we also have members in over 50 countries including South America, Africa and Asia. BESIG offers you ways to improve your expertise in teaching Business English and a link with other people in the profession. We do this through our annual international BESIG conferences, regional workshops, regular newsletters and reports describing conference papers/workshops in detail.
- Register on the mailing list
- Get up-to-date on Business English news and events
- Access comprehensive links to the worldwide Business English and CALL community
IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG
The IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG (formerly, Computer SIG), which began in the mid-1980s, is one of the largest and oldest of the IATEFL SIGs, reflecting the interest in and potential of computers both in society and in ELT.
The Learning Technologies SIG is concerned with all issues to do with using technology for language learning or language teaching. It focusses on the use of computers and Information Technology (IT) in EFL, including the use of corpora and concordancers, multimedia, computer mediated communication, text-based software, authoring, the WWW and also more technical issues.
http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/
IATEFL TEA (Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG)
The TEA SIG is the SIG for people who are interested in the process and product part of learning English as a second and foreign language, in testing, evaluation and assessment in ELT
- Subscribe to the TEA newsletter
- Access the discussion forum
- Participate in worldwide TEA conferences and events
Businessenglish UK
Business English UK is an association of accredited centres based in the UK which are passionate about teaching English for business - it is open to all high quality training establishments which are members of EnglishUK and are accredited by the British Council. They specialise in providing English courses for professional people.
BusinessEnglish UK
http://www.businessenglishuk.org.uk
Magazines and Journals
Business Spotlight
The premier Business English Magazine
http://www.business-spotlight.de
EL GAZETTE
Modern English Teacher
Bulats
BULATS (Business Language Testing Service) is a new international test produced and co-ordinated by Cambridge ESOL. It helps companies and schools find out students' level of language skills.Detailed information about BULATS is available at the site below. There are sections for candidates and organisations as well as a searchable database of Agents and a members area for current Agents.
ILEC
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, ILEC (International Legal English) is an exam in collaboration with Translegal - Europe's leading firm of lawyer-linguists.
This website will give you an overview of what ILEC is, who it's for, how it works as well as information on preparation courses and materials.
http://www.legalenglishtest.org/
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