The Empirical Assessment of English for Specific Business Purpose (ESBP) Among Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) Staff مقالة

Foreign Language Teaching & Research Winter 2014 - Number 5 ISC (‎12 صفحة - من 43 إلی 54 )

الکلمات المفتاحية: Assessment staff Export Development Bank of Iran English for Specific Business Purpose

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The present study has been conducted with the purpose of exploring the relationship between EDBI staff's General English proficiency and their technical English Writing as well as the way each ESBP and GE courses affect their writing skill. The kind of the study is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test, being conducted among EDBI staff in Tehran Branches and Headquarters. In data collection two standard tests were used, namely Preliminary English Test (PET) for homogenous subjects, and also the level of their GE progress at the end of the treatment, and Business English Certificates (BEC) test Level B1, to measure their technical writing skill with appropriate validity and reliability. The findings indicate that: 1) there was a correlation between subjects’ general English proficiency and their business writing proficiency; 2) teaching writing of banking texts significantly improved EDBI staff’s General English; 3) teaching writing of banking could significantly improve EDBI staff’s Business English proficiency; 4) teaching writing of banking could significantly improve EDBI staff’s Business English proficiency more than GE proficiency.

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This is supposed to be done by improving their General English proficiency, focusing on business/banking English, in an ESP context in order to enable them to produce technical texts, respecting different fields of international banking affairs, namely foreign transactions, and content-based subject matters in their daily professional duties. For collecting data researcher has utilized two instruments including a Preliminary English Test (PET) which is a Cambridge university TESOL examination (2011) administrated as PET pre/posttest, for assessing learners' General English proficiency progress, and a Business English certificate (BEC) test Level B1 ( It uses a range of simple and some complex grammatical forms with a good degree of control. The reason for selecting Business Result is that , because the selected units had close relations to technical writing in banking /business field and the level of these books were intermediate , which were suitable for our experimental group, Also Dudley-Evans' (1997) have claimed that ESP courses should be administrated to learners who are at least at Intermediate level of proficiency, and while in control group General English materials from American English File Student Book 3 (Oxenden, Latham-Koenig & Seligson, 2008). In order to find out if, there is any relationship between General English proficiency and the ability at business writing (research question 1), a Pearson correlation test was run. In order to test the null hypothesis, teaching writing of banking texts does not significantly improve EDBI staff’s business English proficiency, Paired samples t-tests were run.

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