Words for Working ofereix una revisió actualitzada de conceptes, competències, habilitats comunicatives i recursos essencials per a l'aprenentatge i ús efectiu de l'anglès professional i acadèmic a l'entorn de l'economia i l'empresa internacional. El volum facilita als lectors el coneixement i el domini de la variació lingüística existent dins del llenguatge especialitzat (variació intercultural, geogràfica, textual, etc.), així com del seu funcionament en àrees de comunicació professional fonamentals en aquest àmbit (anglès empresarial, econòmic, financer, jurídic, etc.). El seu contingut inclou estratègies comunicatives i activitats didàctiques pràctiques tant per a la llavor professional com per a l'estudi i la investigació en anglès dins d'aquestes disciplines en el nou Espai Europeu d'Educació Superior.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. English for International Business and Economics
- 1. Professional and Academic Languages
- 1.1. What we understand by "Professional and Academic Languages"
- 1.2. The role of Professional and Academic Languages in our global society
- 1.3. The structure: language and use
- 1.4. Learning Professional and Academic Languages
- 1.5. New trends and insights
- 1.6. English as an Academic and Professional Language
- 1.7. International Business English and cultural diversity
- 1.8. Recomended bibliography and web links
- 1.9. Test your knowledge
- 2. Language Variation in English for Business and Economics. Miquel F. Ruiz Garrido
- 2.1. Variation in professional and academic settings
- 2.2. Geographical variation: accents and dialects
- 2.3. Individual variation: Idiolects and styles
- 2.4. Textual variation: genres
- 2.5. Situational variation: registers
- 2.6. Cultural variation: interculturality
- 2.7. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 2.8. Test your knowledge
- Part II. Professional English
- 3. English for General Business Purposes
- 3.1. Introduction to Business English
- 3.2. Needs Analysis for Business English learners
- 3.3. Business English course design
- 3.4. The rhetoric of Business English
- 3.5. Professional business discourse
- 3.6. Written communicative events
- 3.7. Spoken Discourse
- 3.8. Business English materials and certificates
- 3.9. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 3.10. test your knledge
- 4. English fos Specific Business Purposes: English for Tourism
- 4.1. Introduction to English for Tourism
- 4.2. The scope of "Travel and Tourism"
- 4.3. Discourse features of English for Tourism
- 4.4. Oral skills in English for Tourism
- 4.5. Written skills in English for Tourism
- 4.6. Integrating the skills: Marketing in Travel and Tourism
- 4.7. The futurer of English for Tourism
- 4.8. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 4.9. Test your knowledge
- 5. English for Economics and Finance
- 5.1. The need for English in economic and financial settings
- 5.2. Essential concepts for communication in economics
- 5.3. Accounting and Auditing
- 5.4. A representative genre: the annual report
- 5.5. Banking and financial institutions
- 5.6. Stock markets
- 5.7. Corporate Finance
- 5.8. International Trade
- 5.9. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 5.10. Test your knowledge
- 6. The Legal Environment of Business in the Anglo-Saxon World
- 6.1. The Internationalization of Business Law: English as the tool of the trade
- 6.2. Company Law in the English-speaking world
- 6.3. Corporate and Commercial Law
- 6.4. Private Law: Contract Law and Private Enterprise
- 6.5. Intentional torts, negligence strict liability
- 6.6. Internatinal transactions
- 6.7. English/Spanish legal language: comparing essential features and basic documents
- 6.8. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 6.9. Test Your Knowledge
- 7. English for ICT in Business Management
- 7.1. The language of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- 7.2. Computer hardware
- 7.3. Operating systems and basic software
- 7.4. Specialized software for business management
- 7.5. Internet and the World Wide Web
- 7.6. Business communications and ICT
- 7.7. E-commerce
- 7.8. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 7.9. Test your knowledge
- Part III. Academic English
- 8. English for Higher Education Studies
- 8.1. Communicative skills in Academic English
- 8.2. Genres and registers in Academic English
- 8.3. Reading and understanding academic texts
- 8.4. Lecture comprehension and listening strategies
- 8.5. Note-taking summerising
- 8.6. Writing essays and small research projects
- 8.7. Other communicative skills
- 8.8. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 8.9. Test your knowledge
- 9. English for Academic Research
- 9.1. What is "research"?
- 9.2. Searching for information: referencing research
- 9.3. Writing academic and scientific research articles (RAs)
- 9.4. Poster sessions and paper presentations at conferences
- 9.5. Recommended bibliography and web links
- 9.6. Test your knowledge
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