BUSINESS ENGLISH course code BE/JG
Duration: 3 days. Target audience: anyone with a need to improve their command of appropriate English for business use. NQF level 4
Both educationalists and researchers report that literacy levels and English competency are reducing rapidly. Problems that are aggravating this situation include the new OBE education system, attempts to accommodate several official languages, lack of delivery by government departments, an acute shortage of teachers and unmanageable numbers of learners in classrooms.
The problem with English then evidences in organisations as a lack of competency, unprofessionalism, a lack of productivity, conflict, time wasting, increased costs, etc.
There is no “quick fix” for improving one’s command of any language, but this three-day course will provide some assistance with the improvement of English used in the working environment. It focuses on the underlying fundamentals of correct English, whilst ensuring all content is typical of the working world. The course is a practical, participative course that is constructed around exercises carefully designed to ensure real learning by attendees and relevance to the world of work. The workshop will help employees at all levels of the organisation to improve their level of competence with English typically used in a working environment.
Course Outcomes
The course covers the basics of the following aspects of Business English and course outcomes are therefore an understanding of these aspects and an extended familiarity with the problems and the correct usage:
- Defining Business English
- Common problems with Business English: jargon, acronyms and abbreviations, terms and concepts, slang, colloquialisms, neologisms
- All aspects of punctuation in the English language, including: sentence types, phrases and clauses, subject and predicate, parts of speech
- A thorough look at grammar and common problems in this area, including pronoun determination and antecedents, rule of concord, tenses, active and passive voice
- Vocabulary correction, improvement and extension; spelling rules and problems
- Phraseology, including collocations
(Note: This course is pitched at an NQF 4 home language level and is therefore not suitable for those who have only a most basic or rudimentary ability in English.)
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