It's our pleasure to announce for English in the workplace training course, October 22, 2013, Here are the details:
This course is designed by EduTec expert team and totally customized to fit the Qatari workplace needs, and more directly relevant to adult professionals to communicate more effectively in their workplace.
Course Name: English in the workplace
Starting Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Duration: 30 Hours /- ( 2 hours a day / 3 days a week )
Timing: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Course Language: The training module will be conducted in English.
Certificate: Certificates of Attendance will be issued from EduTec upon course completion.
Fees: QR 2,900 /- including course materials and the certificates
Aims
ü To increase the student’s comprehension of difficult texts, such as legal correspondence and contracts.
ü To master the student’s comprehension of spoken English when used in meetings, presentations and discussions.
ü To improve the student’s ability to write business texts in English namely letters, memos and minutes of meetings.
ü To practice an analytical approach to a student’s writing by looking critically on written assignments.
ü To expand the student’s vocabulary.
ü To improve the student’s ability to speak effectively in various business situations, e.g. Negotiations and discussion between clients and colleagues.
ü To familiarise the student with various materials and practice selected tasks within areas of interest.
ü To increase grammar awareness.
Content
Speaking
In this section the student will
[ Develop the ability of monitoring their speech when presenting business ideas.
[ Organise their presentations in a successful way, i.e. effectively use professional English, skillfully control his/her speech content and understand the use of body language.
[ Improve telephone skills.
[ Learn how to successfully lead business negotiations in English.
Reading
This section will help the student
[ Increase reading comprehension by frequent exposure to different texts.
[ Improve scanning and skimming of documents and letters.
[ Understand the general meaning if the text contains unknown words or different terminology.
[ Practice pronunciation and intonation while doing reading exercises through reading out loud short passages from a text book.
Listening
Here the student will be able to
[ Practise listening skills through a variety of listening tasks in business.
[ Improve recognition and comprehension of different English accents by listening to native speakers.
[ Learn how to grab the” gist” of a fast speech.
[ Practise effective note taking.
[ Improve the ability to jot down new words from a recording played.
Writing
In this section the student will
[ Improve formal writing, i.e. business letters, corporate emails, contract drafts, memos, etc by writing frequent assignments of various types.
[ Summerise texts by learning how to make them formal or informal, i.e. to gain ability to skillfully rewrite a given plain text into plain English, formal or informal.
[ Practise correct spelling and punctuation by looking critically at their writing or by various exercises on error correction.
[ Using proper collocations, synonyms and antonyms naturally and effectively.
[ Practise coherence and learn how to avoid wordiness.
[ Learn the meaning of certain acronyms or Latin used in certain areas of business.
Additionally
ü To be aware of the difference between American and British spelling.
ü To recognise stylistic features in a text.
About The Instructor
KAROLINA KOWALSKA
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
ü Master of Arts, Sociolinguistics of English
ü Bachelor of Arts, Phonetics and Phonology
ü Ethno-linguistics, Institute of Linguistics
EXPERIENCE
ü ESL Instructor – Business English, EduTec Training Centre
ü Conducted Business English Training for QF personnel, Qatar Foundation
ü Conducted Business English Writing BEW Training for Supreme Council of Health staff
ü Writing Consultant & IELTS teacher, Texas A&M University at Qatar
ü Teacher of the English language, Stenden University
ü Conducted Academic Writing, General English, CJE NKJO Teacher Training College.
ü Academic Teacher, Polonia University
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