BIENVENIDOS A LA UNIVERSIDAD CAECE

FOR STUDENTS OUTSIDE 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

Tutor: Prof. Diana Porto

Characteristics

Dates and fees

Syllabus

ENROLLMENT

Contacts

Characteristics

e- learning: Upon enrollment, 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.

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 LCCI centre closest to their places of residence. 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 payment: to the examining LCCI centre.

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 Participation 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 Examination date: August 12, 2010 Examination fee: USD 95 in Argentina. Monthly payments: Three monthly payments of USD 90.- each. Examination fee: the corresponding fee for the country where the examination is sat.
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Enrollment

Procedure: Follow these instructions.

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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	UNIT TOPIC	LANGUAGE FOCUS	TEACHING SKILLS FOCUS	INTEGRATIVE TASKS
1	Economic activity. The economy chain. Types of written and verbal communications in business.	Main linguistic features of Business English. Basic concepts of register, jargon, appropriacy.	The communicative approach to language teaching: main characteristics.	Writing a lesson plan for teaching the basic concepts of economic activity through the analysis of a case.
2	Types of companies. Organisation of a company.	Internal communications: the memo. Editing paragraphs.	Needs analysis: the learners’ profile. The needs of the job.	Levels. The EU’s nine-level scale. Profiling learners and determining their training gap.
3	Personnel or Human Resources. Job description. Performance evaluations.	External communications: writing a letter of rejection after a job interview.	Planning a course. Defining needs of a job and evaluating materials	Writing a course plan for a client, including the manner of evaluation.
4	Production. Factors of production.	External communications:Letters (1).	Syllabus design. Definition of syllabus.	Syllabus types. Designing or adapting a syllabus.
5	Marketing. Product, placement, packaging, price. Advertising and promotion.	External communications: The language of advertising	Materials and resources. Exploitation of authentic materials.	Selecting resources or supplementary materials for a particular textbook.
6	Planning in business. Some overall economic indicators used for planning. SWOT analysis.	External communications: Letters	Planning lessons. Different plan formats.	Writing a lesson plan.
7	Trading. Documents involved in trading and sales Banking. Meetings and negotiations.	External communications: Letters	Role-play. Case studies.	Designing, carrying out and evaluating a role-play activity.
8	Finance. Basic concepts in accounting.	External/internal communications: Design of slides and handouts Using graphs	Teaching how to deliver presentations.	Planning a presentation. Evaluating a presentation.
9	Insurance and reinsurance. Reporting.	External/internal communications: Reports	Assessment and testing. Types of tests. Testing grammar and language.	Analysing, designing and classifying tests.
10	Leadership and management. The teacher as a leader.	Materials included in mock examination.	Reviewing concepts in testing. Testing writing.	Examination practice.

(1) Non-graduate teachers are requested to read about the history of foreign language teaching methodology in the 20th and 21st centuries before starting the course.

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