Coursera – Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization 2021-12

Published on: 2022-07-13 10:58:34

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Description

Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization is a five-part training series focusing on English language specialized in business and commerce, published by Coursera Academy. English is a basic and very important skill for business owners and international businessmen. This educational package is prepared for those people whose first language is not English. In the big and growing world of business, communication skills have played a very important role and are the key to advanced social and work relationships and networking. The skills and topics taught in this training package will be used in different situations such as workplace, intercultural understanding, case study and analysis of business-related professors, etc., and will increase your work potential.

General and specialized business vocabulary, improving reading skills, understanding the tone of the audience, different communication methods, different communication strategies with different people, understanding intercultural differences, etc. are among the most important topics that will be covered in the first period. The second course focuses on writing skills and includes valuable topics such as the use of complex grammatical structures, different styles of writing in the field of business, studying and building work processors, and so on. The third and fourth courses will focus on speaking skills and intercultural understanding, respectively, and will introduce you to the culture and work charter of other countries and ethnicities. In the last course, you will encounter a series of purposeful questions and exercises that will challenge the skills learned in the previous 4 courses. Creating a business report and presenting a half-hour video file is one of the most important tasks of the student in the last section.

What you will learn in Business English for Non-Native Speakers Specialization

Improve communication skills of business owners to participate in international meetings and provide suggestions and work plans
Participate in various events and business meetings and communicate with meeting attendees
Negotiation techniques and support of logical arguments
Understand the impact of different tones and communication styles on the meeting process
Analyze your audience and customers and offer the best offers
Analyze and summarize sales data
Formal and informal correspondence and writing work emails
Write a management summary for a business plan
Provide convincing and logical texts and arguments in English
Choosing the right tone and context based on the audience’s circumstances and work goals
Participate in job interviews
Identify intercultural problems and barriers and common misunderstandings between different business groups
Practical strategies for overcoming intercultural and inter-ethnic barriers

Course Specifications

Publisher: Coursera
Instructors: Kin Tang and Delian Gaskell
Language: English
Level: Beginner
institution/university: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Number of Courses: 5
Duration: Approximately 8 months to complete – Suggested pace of 4 hours/week

Courses included:

Course 1

Business English: Basics

Course 2

English for Effective Business Writing

Course 3

English for Effective Business Speaking

Course 4

Business English for Cross-cultural Communication

Course 5

Business Case Analysis

Prerequisites

A min of IELTs 5.5 and a max of IELTS 7.0 is recommended. See IELTS Band Scale for more info. Or, a min of 46-59 and a max of 102-109 TOEFL Score is recommended. See TOEFL Score Scale for more info.