BIENVENIDOS A LA UNIVERSIDAD CAECE

PARA ALUMNOS EN ARGENTINA
FIRST CERTIFICATE FOR TEACHERS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH

An ideal course for teachers, translators or English speakers who wish to teach at language schools or in corporate environments.

The course leads up to the First Certificate for Teachers of Business English, by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board, International Qualifications.

This is an internationally valid qualification granted by the LCCI through Universidad CAECE, an authorised teaching and testing centre, which successfully prepares language professionals for teaching ESP to adults and managing corporate courses.

Coordinator and author : Magíster Ana María Rozzi de Bergel

Characteristics

Dates and fees

Syllabus

ENROLLMENT

Contacts

Characteristics

e- learning: Upon enrolment, students will receive a Key to access the study materials, the 10 units lodged in our e-learning platform. A tutor will guide them throughout the course and communications will be via e-mail or in the Forum.

Virtual lessons: Besides working on the units, participants will meet for virtual lessons with their tutor at the Aldea Global centre closest to their places of residence, by video-streaming, to exchange ideas in real time.

Entry requirements: Participants may be teachers of English, translators or fully proficient English users, writing, reading and talking at near-educated native-speaker level.

Duration: 3 months.

Number of hours: 50 hours.

Examination: Candidates may take the final examination at the Aldea Global centre closest to their places of residence or in Buenos Aires , at Universidad CAECE. The examination is then sent to the United Kingdom for correction and scoring.

Examination date: November 20, 2009

Examination payment: Through Western Union, according to instructions issued by Universidad CAECE to the course participants in due time.

Certificate: On passing the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry's examination, participants will receive the First Certificate for Teachers of Business English, of international validity.

Participants not taking the LCCI examination will receive a Certificate of Particiapation in the course, granted by Universidad CAECE.

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Dates & Fees
Starting date: August 13, 2010. Enrolment: from June 1 to August 20, 2010. Enrolment fee: none Monthly payments: Three monthly payments of $200.- each. Examination fee: US$ 95, in Argentina, in 2009. New fees may be announced for 2010.
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Enrollment

Procedure: To enroll, go to the Aldea Global centre closest to your place of residence.
If none is available, follow the link below to enroll through Universidad CAECE:
“If you wish to enroll through Universidad CAECE, click here”

Cancellation policy:
Should you be unable to take the course, you may transfer your enrolment to another student or you may keep your credit and use it at a later date. Transfers of credits should be notified 24 hours before the starting date of the course.

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Contacts

For further information:

edistancia@caece.edu.ar

Junín 516. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Teléfono: 5252 –2800, interno: 257-207

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Syllabus

UNIT	TOPIC FOCUS	LANGUAGE FOCUS	TEACHING SKILLS FOCUS	INTEGRATIVE TASKS
1	Economic activity. The stages of economic activity. Types of economies.	Some basic terminology in linguistics. Some business-related vocabulary.	Main approaches to TEFL in the 20th Century. The Communicative Approach. The needs of a Business English teacher.	Writing a lesson plan for teaching the basic concepts of economic activity through the analysis of a case.
2	Different types of companies. The internal organisation of a company. The organisation chart. The influence of hierarchy on language register.	Writing memos. Editing paragraphs.	Needs analysis. The language needs for different jobs. Characteristics of a language teaching service. Definition of the training gap for different learners.	Profiling learners and determining their training gap.
3	Personnel or Human Resources. Job description. Performance evaluations.	Writing a letter of rejection Recognising different registers.	The client approach. Course planning. Establishing rapport with the learners. Feedback and reports.	Writing a course plan for a client, including the manner of evaluation.
4	The process of production. The factors of production. Method and organisation of production. Job satisfaction and efficiency.	External communications: letters. More business vocabulary.	The syllabus: definitions. Different types of syllabuses.	Designing two syllabus units.
5	Definition of Marketing. The components of the marketing mix: Product, placement, packaging, price. Advertising and promotion.	Advertising materials. Increase your business vocabulary.	Identifying materials and resources. How to exploit authentic materials Planning.	Designing activities to exploit authentic materials.
6	The process of planning in business. Identification of overall economic indicators used for planning. SWOT analysis.	External communications: personal letters on business matters. More business vocabulary.	Steps in lesson planning. Writing a lesson plan.	Writing a lesson plan, teaching the lesson and evaluating the results.
7	Trading and trading documents. Main functions of a bank. Meetings and negotiations.	Banking terminology. Writing concisely. External communications: letters of complaint.	Strategic interaction. The design of role-play activities. Teaching about meetings and negotiations.	Designing, carrying out and evaluating a role-play activity.
8	The Finance Department. Main concepts in finance. The Stock Exchange. How money moves. Presentations: practical tips.	Expressing concepts through graphs. Going from graphs to texts. The language of presentations. Finance vocabulary.	Using graphs. Teaching how to deliver presentations. Evaluating presentations.	Planning the presentation of a proposal for organising English courses at a company.
9	Types of cultures. Communication across cultures. Creating awareness of diversity.	Writing business reports.	Reporting and giving feedback. Testing. Basic characteristics of tests. Types of tests.	Writing a test and analyzing it.
10	Questions about the topics in Units 1 – 9	Business vocabulary practice.	Troubleshooting and how you would carry it out.	Examination practice.

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