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Nickerson, Catherine and Brigitte Planken. 2008. Business English and the Bologna Declaration in the Netherlands: Integrating business communication practice, content and research. In Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada and Christine A. Räisänen, eds. ESP in European Higher Education. Integrating language and content. (AILA Applied Linguistics Series 4). John Benjamins. pp. 165–179.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper provides a description of the International Business Communication Studies Bachelor and Master degree programmes that were implemented between 2002 and 2006, at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), in accordance with the Bologna Declaration (1999). To illustrate the approach, taken to integrate Business English in the curriculum, this paper discusses four (compulsory and elective) courses that specifically involve the teaching of Business English. Two courses aim at promoting language proficiency and business communicative competence, the others at investigating Business English as discourse. For each, it is described how business content, research components and Business English are combined, and how the courses reference new technologies and their use in an increasingly global business context, where English is the lingua franca.