COURSE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT

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~  USING THIS BUSINESS COURSE AS A LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STRATEGY ~
 

• Globally, approximately 25 percent of us trace our homeland to China, 23 percent to India, 17 percent to other parts of Asia and the Pacific, 18 percent to Europe, 10 percent to Africa, 7 percent to the Americas.
   

• This business course is designed so it can be used as a primary source for conversational practice within an overall English language acquisition strategy. It is a business course for young adult learners who are old enough to study Career and Technical Education at a third- or fourth-year high school or a Junior College level (visit my CTE website for related information). Adult learners who want to independently study English to enhance their career or entrepreneurial conversations will also benefit from this course.
   

• This language acquisition course is meant to be a total immersion experience.  Students are encouraged to transfer over to that mode of learning as soon as they can comfortably do so. It is taught in the context of Business English for ESL Students and Entrepreneurs who are interested in gaining knowledge of how to use English as a global business language in organizational and strategic business settings. I have written and presented all strategic business lessons as if the learner were one of a group of native English speakers. Specific attention to a student's individual language learning needs is reserved for regularly scheduled one-on-one conversations with the instructor.
   

• The guidance provided on this website is primarily intended for students with an intermediate to advanced command of the English language. However, motivated beginning learners can easily adapt its approach to their own level. And as the instructor, I am willing to adjust the mentoring approach for beginning students in individual cases which will be predetermined at the discretion of the instructor through a special application process.
   

• The English literacy strategies (oracy, reading, writing, and metalanguage) outlined in this course can be reviewed in the three mastery packets, Vocabulary, Phonology, and Pragmatics, available on this website.  Each skill packet will be integrated with both the grammatical and pragmatic concepts of language acquisition and communicative competence that are parts of the total package of language literacy.
   

• Along with being study resources that are referred to in the various lesson modules, the Mastery Packets are designed to facilitate self-directed interest in the finer points of formal language structure and understanding.

 

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