Letter Writing in English – Rationale and Models for Social and Business Letters
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Letter Writing in English – Rationale and Models for Social and Business Letters
Writing skills are often the most difficult skills for students of English as a foreign language to acquire. This may be because of the great emphasis on listening, speaking, and reading in the classroom. This guided writing practice will help to reinforce and integrate the development of all the language skills and prepare learners for the production of written English at more advanced levels.
"Journalism Online" deals with the distinctive characteristics of online news in our current digital age. It illustrates its effects on journalism and gives definitions of this new kind of news using the web as a medium for its message.
As a university prof teaching ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) courses at undergraduate level, I regularly use texts that offer authentic language (English, not designed for english teching) from various fields to design study material, mostly from the technology and business sectors.
Professional English in Use ICT is suitable for intermediate to advanced level learners of English.
The book covers a wide range of topics on Information Communications Technology including word processing, financial software and databases, multimedia applications, email, web design and Internet security. It presents and explains new words in context and shows learners how to use them.
Professional English in Use Finance is suitable for intermediate students and above. It includes 50 units covering all aspects of financial vocabulary from Accounting to Borrowing and Lending, Central Banking to Venture Capital and many more areas including financial idioms and metaphors. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, it can also be used for classroom work and one-to-one lessons.
