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English For Operating A Small Business, Joseph Thomas Mcbride Jr. Jan 1986

English For Operating A Small Business, Joseph Thomas Mcbride Jr.

MA TESOL Collection

This materials development project is a course program designed for owners, operators, and managers of small businesses, who are non-native English speakers. Emphasis will be on business terms and the language used in operating a "family owned" or a small business. Topics covered include typical conversations with accountants, lawyers, insurance agents, bankers, suppliers, creditors, customers, and employees.


Situations: An Esl Learner's Handbook, David B. Bell Jan 1981

Situations: An Esl Learner's Handbook, David B. Bell

MA TESOL Collection

This is a handbook consisting of five lessons with accompanying cassette tapes for Japanese businessmen with intermediate to advanced levels of proficiency in English. Each lesson and tape contains a narration, a dialogue and exercises which are designed to help master vocabulary and structures that may be encountered in interactions with people in the United States. The units are written to emphasize the importance of polite requests in dealing with employees of various types of businesses (hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, banks and airports), and to familiarize Japanese language learners with types of responses they may reasonably expect to hear in …


A Report On One Year's Experience As The Advisor To The Board Of Directors Of Binational Center In Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Elliott S. Glazer Jan 1975

A Report On One Year's Experience As The Advisor To The Board Of Directors Of Binational Center In Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Elliott S. Glazer

MA TESOL Collection

It is my intent, in writing this, my Independent Professional Project, to present to the reader through an assortment of facts, ideas, experiences and evaluations an overview of the history, components and present status of binational centers and of the INSTITUTO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DE YUCATAN, A.C. ; a rather in-depth discussion of the work of the Advisor to the Board of Directors ( the equivalent of Executive or Administrative Director in most other centers ) during the 1974-75 academic year, including his duties, goals and frustrations (often caused by problems of communication, culture and/or politics), and his relationship with the …