ビジネス英語ならUCLA　Extension Tokyo Center

BEC is a language program that uses business content to develop communication skills in its participants.

The teaching method is participant-centered and performance-based, focusing on communicative learning activities. This means that participants learn by doing, using the language to complete business tasks and solve problems, not by passively listening to the instructor lecture. For example, by writing a business plan and developing it throughout the Business Advantage course with classmates acting as “consultants,” participants use all their language and cognitive skills as well as their knowledge of business. Based on the business plan, participants also make an appeal for funding to venture capital investors, developing the art of persuasion. In other group work activities, participants actually practice team building, chairing a meeting, and negotiating. These activities make for a more engaging and pedagogically effective course.

As a language course, BEC integrates communication skills such as listening, speaking, writing, and grammar/pronunciation. It also focuses on higher-order thinking skills, including logical and critical analysis, hypothesizing, summarizing, critiquing, pragmatics, and socializing.

The program has an emphasis on cross-cultural communication, which is often the cause of many problems when businesspeople try to communicate internationally. The courses introduce and incorporate the cross-cultural ideas of Edward Hall, Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, John Mole, and others.

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