Course purpose

• To master English for business purposes - level B2/C1

Content (Syllabus outline)

The learning objectives of the course are achieved through the linguistic exploration of  the topics in the area of organizations and management, and the related fields, e.g. (e-)marketing, CSR and the environment challenges, finance and the SE/securities market, HRM, translating technical/professional texts (e.g. texts about the EU, international trade, start-ups and business plans, formal  business communication, mergers and acquisitions, the impact of artificial inteligenceAI),using translation and other tools to research language (e.g. Sketch Engine, Memsource).

Linguistic exploration follows the new CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), 2020 (Companion Volume of CEFR).

Descriptors are organized in terms of language activities, taking into account the two novelties incorporated in CEFR or upgrading it:
1. In terms of modes of communication: reception (listening and reading); production (speaking and writing); interaction (conversation, listening in order to respond, speaking back, speaking (writing, writing and reading)); mediation (mediate from one context to another, with the aim to enable somebody to understand it better; reading complicated texts and  changing it in an informal form, summarizing).

Thus the (old) four-skill model (reading, writing, listening, speaking) is replaced by the new model.

2. Use of language online (new sets of descriptors for use of language online) in terms of  online conversation and discussion, and  goal-oriented online transactions and collaboration.