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1、BusinessEnglishandItsLearningStrategiesWhatisbusinessEnglishBusinessEnglishisEnglishlanguageespeciallyrelatedtointernationaltrade.ItisapartofEnglishforSpecificPurposesandcanbeconsideredaspecialismwithinEnglishlanguagelearningandteaching.AccordingtoTanWenru,businessEnglishisbasedontheadaptationtothel
2、anguagesinbusinesslife.Itcontainsallaspectsthatconcernbusinessevents.Italsoteacheshowtocommunicateandcooperatewithforeignersandstudiestheirlifestyles.MuchoftheEnglishcommunicationthattakesplacewithinbusinesscirclesallovertheworldoccursbetweennon-nativespeakers.BusinessEnglishmeansdifferentthingstodi
3、fferentpeople.Forsome,itfocusesonvocabularyandtopicsusedintheworldsofbusiness,trade,finance,andinternationalrelations.Forothers,itreferstothecommunicationskillsusedintheworkplace,andfocusesonthelanguageandskillsneededfortypicalbusinesscommunicationsuchaspresentations,negotiations,meetings,smalltalk,
4、socializing,correspondence,reportwriting,andsoon.InbothofthesecasesitcanbetaughttonativespeakersofEnglish.ThelearningstrategiesofbusinessEnglishAlthoughbusinessEnglishishardtolearn,wecanalsomasteritbyourhardwork.Perhapsagoodstartingpointistolookathowtheword‘strategy’isdeployedinordinaryusage.Akeyele
5、mentisthatofproblem-solving.Astrategyisnotsimplywhatyoudotoobtainaresult.Itisthewayyouchoosetodealwiththequestionsthatariseonthewaytoobtainingthatresult.Inarecentpaper(Griffiths2007)onteachers’andstudents’perceptionsofstrategies,theauthorincludesthefollowinginthelistof32‘strategies’thatsheselectsfor
6、examination:lspendingtimestudyingEnglishllearningfromtheteacherldoinghomeworklrevisingregularlylusingadictionaryllearningfrommistakeslstudyingEnglishgrammarlconsciouslylearningnewvocabularyBialystok(1978)inhermodelofsecondlanguagelearningdefineslearningstrategiesasalternativewaysof"exploitingavailab
7、leinformationtoimprovecompetenceinasecondlanguage".Fourcategoriesoflearningstrategiesareincludedinhermodel,namely,inferencing,monitoring,formalpracticingandfunctionalpracticing.Accordingtoher,thereare