LEARNING BUSINESS ENGLISH BY MODELING DOING BUSINESS IN ENGLISH: AN IMPROVEMENT ON INTERDISCIPLINARY BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSE, TEXTBOOK, AND SYLLABUS DESIGN
LEARNING BUSINESS ENGLISH BY MODELING DOING BUSINESS IN ENGLISH: AN IMPROVEMENT ON INTERDISCIPLINARY BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSE, TEXTBOOK, AND SYLLABUS DESIGN

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses a developed Business English syllabus, course, and an innovative Business English textbook for that course. Those were created for students of Ukrainian universities majoring in Business and Economics and for learners in commercial Business English programs. The textbook, course, and syllabus are interdisciplinary since they are content-based – everything that students learn of Business English is being learned through content matter from the areas of business and the academic disciplines for teaching business. The interdisciplinary approach is reinforced by making the syllabus, course, and textbook totally communicationbased (learning Business English through business communication in English), taskbased and theme-based. But such interdisciplinarity, which can be found in some of the best Business English textbooks, courses, and syllabi, is considerably improved by adding five innovative features to the developed syllabus, textbook, and the course based on them. The most important of those features is modeling doing business in English by using what was called continuous simulation that turns a language classroom into a faithful model of business activities and business communication performed in the target language.

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