E-RESOURCES IN THE LEARNING PROCESS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH
E-RESOURCES IN THE LEARNING PROCESS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to prove the importance of including online resources on the list of teaching/learning materials for students who are in the process of training in order to become future economists. The need to find the most accessible e-resources and e-captures of economic English which are in close connection with worldwide economic realities led me as a teacher of Business English to online Business English articles. This paper is going to focus as well on the students’ feedback regarding the use of such a tool during our Business English seminars. The target students are first year undergraduates with The Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Faculty of Cybernetics. The gain of such a practice is multiple. Students feel connected to the online economic world, have the opportunity of learning Business English terms and expressions with high frequency, discover economic domains in which they may be interested in the future together with the Business English economic terms and expressions specific to them. Another challenging part of the use of e-articles in numerous online Business English magazines or publications is the fact that the students have freedom of choice as long as the respective article is an economic one. Finally, e-articles are the starting point of the oral delivery of the article summary that each student has to experience in front of his colleagues. The results of this research make us believe that students who prepare for economic careers perceive these materials as being extremely useful for their future professional training. Thus, they represent a valuable part of the elearning resources which should not be neglected in the learning/ teaching process of Business English.

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