Business English and the Teaching of Productive Skills in Morocco

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, , course: Department of English, language: English, abstract: The objective of the present paper is to investigate problems concerned with the teaching of productive skills in Business English classes. Productive skills refer to speaking and writing. Business English is a branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This research project aims to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of the Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion (ENCG) students about the productive skills in the ESP course, as well as to figure out whether the ENCG students are fully aware of the significance of productive skills in their prospective professional communication. This paper strives to answer the following questions: What are the general features which appear to characterize the teaching of oral skills in the ESP course? Does writing in the ESP course enable students to become good English business writers? And to what extent do speaking and writing prepare ESP students for professional communication?

Housseine Bachiri is from the Kingdom of Morocco. He is a researcher in the field of education, pedagogy, and curriculum design at the University of Ibn Tofail, Kenitra. He is currently an English teacher at Mohammadia School of Engineers in Rabat-Morocco. He is fond of Writing, Discourse Analysis, Semantics and Pragmatics, and Omptimality Theory. His unconditional love of the English language allows him to be in constant collaboration and interaction with other researchers working on different topics pertinent to education and language pedagogy.