Authentic materials in the Business English classroom: Annual Reports
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Authentic materials in the Business English classroom: Annual ReportsDate
2015Publisher
Vilnius UniversityISSN
1392-1517; 2029-8315Bibliographic citation
RUIZ-GARRIDO, Miguel F.; PALMER-SILVEIRA, Juan Carlos. Authentic materials in the Business English classroom: Annual Reports. Kalbotyra, 2015, vol. 67, p. 86-103.Type
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International firms are interested in getting the best possible professionals, those who
are able to communicate accurately at the workplace. To help them, the use of authentic
materials in the classroom can enhance ... [+]
International firms are interested in getting the best possible professionals, those who
are able to communicate accurately at the workplace. To help them, the use of authentic
materials in the classroom can enhance students’ options to succeed in their prospective
working environment. From a genre-based perspective, annual reports can be useful for
that purpose, as they offer a real corporate image of the companies, helping students
to understand better how firms work. This paper shows a practical implementation of
three activities that are carried out among three different groups of students at a Spanish
public university to promote their communicative skills. To do so we have followed
a multimodal approach, so that our students can experience, conceptualize and apply
meaning to a genre (annual report), completing some tasks in which they have to
communicate in English the information appearing in those texts. The final pedagogical
recommendations enhance the benefits of using authentic materials in the English for
business communication classroom. The combination of multimodality and genre-based
pedagogy lead students to understand the current meaning construction in professional
settings. [-]
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