Stepwise Intensive Training Method of Listening and Speaking in

Business English

Jingning Li

YangZhou Polytechnic Institute, YangZhou, JiangSu, 225127, China

Keywords: Business English, Listening and Speaking, Stepwise, Training, Meaning.

Abstract: Only effective communication during learning process of Business English can make Business English

more active. The value of this major can be presented by listening and speaking training. Therefore, as an

effective method, intensive training of listening and speaking in Business English by stepwise method has

been recognized. The meaning of paying more attention to learning and speaking ability in Business English

was firstly described in this work, with detailed stepwise intensive training flow. The method is hoped to

help students improve their listening and speaking ability.

1 SIGNIFICANCE OF INTENSIVE

STEPWISE TRAINING IN

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Business English is a comprehensive ability in the

particular working place or field. As a valuable

major, Business English gains popularity in

majority. However, listening and speaking for

students are more important in this major. One

effective way of learning Business English is given

to student to improve their listening and speaking

ability by stepwise intensive method (Cong Lin,

2011).

1.1 Improving student’s learning

ability by stepwise intensive

training method

As a professional course, Business English cannot

exist without theory teaching class. Therefore,

student’s learning ability can be improved by

intensive stepwise training method. Benefits can be

acquired by integrating theory study with listening

and speaking training.

1.2 Enhancing student’s

communicative ability by stepwise

intensive training method

The basic requirement for students of Business

English major is to understand business listening and

speaking materials of the middle and high level.

Also it is required to get what they’d said in business

environment and reply back with corresponding

words in English. Then business activity can be

achieved. It is unavoidable to communicate with

people during theory and practical study in major of

Business English (Wang Panpan, 2010). As a basic

study, theory study is the foundation of fluent

communication among students. Therefore, stepwise

training can improve listening and expression ability

of students, even high level communicative ability

can be achieved in the practical activity. It is

concluded that listening and speaking training in

Business English can greatly enhance their business

communication capability.

1.3 Meeting employment need by

stepwise intensive training method

With continuous society development, people with

Business English are needed in many fields.

Therefore, the employment of students can be

improved obviously if students possess better

Business English ability. Students hope to fulfill

their employment through effective learning of

Business English. It is concluded that students with

corresponding English level can better fit the society

development. Better platform of achieving

employment can be provided by listening and

speaking training of Business English (Zhang Li,

2012).

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Stepwise Intensive Training Method of Listening and Speaking in Business English.

DOI: 10.5220/0006446301700173

In ISME 2016 - Information Science and Management Engineering IV (ISME 2016), pages 170-173

ISBN: 978-989-758-208-0

2 LANGUAGE SKILL INTENSIVE

STEP IN BUSINESS ENGLISH

Firstly, the proficiency of English decides the

perception ability to such spoken language. Students

who study Business English have weaker ability to

distinguish their voices, also with non-standard

pronunciation. Therefore, they are scared of learning

Business English. So it is necessary to train their

listening and speaking. Phonetic knowledge can be

given by teacher before class, teaching them how to

quickly differ the reductions from non reduction,

and also feeling the existence of factors and

phonemic change. Teacher can guide them to

understand the phenomena such as omission,

continuation, assimilation and incomplete plosion.

Finally they can better understand the difference

between British English and American English. In

the mean time, teachers should require students to

improve their following and learning ability, making

themselves speak like native speakers.

Secondly, when there is some improvement of

phonetic learning, certain training on listening and

speaking is needed for students by extracting some

language materials. And these materials should

assure the novelty and right-sizing, promoting them

to speak with original tone and enhancing their

confidence in learning Business English. In the

mean time, teachers can select and make some

phonetic materials to make effective training after

class. Energetic activity of learning can be gained,

and better environment can be formed. Of course,

practices are needed for students to focus on idiom

and sentence structure.

Moreover, phonetic learning archive of each

student should be established by teacher, knowing

their learning situation in time. Corresponding

inspection are made to make students quickly enter

into listening and speaking environment, improving

their expression ability.

3 TINY SKILL STEP OF

LEARNING AND SPEAKING

Tiny skill is the basic skill to improve learning and

speaking level in Business English. Related tiny skill

training is needed for student, developing their

listening and speaking with reasonable training and

study. Teacher can encourage them to handle these

skills, reaching the familiar degree. Thus study and

practice can be effective.

3.1 Ability of content prediction

Prediction is important skill for student to train their

listening and speaking. It requires student to explore

the content that they will hear by handling the

current information. Students with tiny skill can

expand their ability to understand the whole article.

Teacher can give an overall material introduction of

rough background, and student can have a brief

understanding of the material, predicting the coming

question in time. Thus time can be saved during

scientific listening and speaking training. Moreover,

teacher can pause for a while when they play the

record, making student predict the coming content.

And then Teacher continues playing the following

record, making student compare with their

prediction. In this case, students can energetically

focus on the playing record.

3.2 Ability of extracting main

information

Extracting main information can help student get rid

of insignificant message, capturing the central

thought of article. Teacher can use materials such as

business report, freight forecast to train student’s

extracting ability. For instance, teacher plays the

materials like business report which contains basic

and language structure, checking their understanding

about the keywords, also encouraging them to know

the brief content of business report.

There are two ways to train student’s extraction

ability. The first way is to ask question after hearing,

making them listen it with question, and then

guiding them to answer after playing all the content.

And the second way is to directly play the record

without any hint. The former way can let student do

this on purpose, while the second way is quite

difficult. It’s useful for student to capture effective

information in record and to make better notice in

second way. Anyway, it is better way to integrate

with above two methods.

3.3 Guessing the meaning of words

There are many uncommon words in Business

English, so, students are required to master more

words, improving their vocabulary quantity. “Short

circuit” might happen if student can’t understand

some words during listening and speaking training,

making them uncomfortable. Anyway, strange

words can attract student’s attention. Teacher can let

student work out the words by emptying some words

during playing record, helping them to understand

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the article thoroughly. In this case, they can

correctly guess the meaning of words, improving

their vocabulary quantity.

4 STEPS OF DEVELOPING

THINKING ABILITY

During the training of listening and speaking in

Business English, teacher should pay more attention

on developing student’s thinking ability, improving

their listening and speaking through effective

thinking ability. Students should possess thinking

abilities of Business English such as analysis and

judgment. However, the thinking ability of student

can’t be built in a day, and it should be got through

all training process. The listening and speaking

ability of student can only be developed by checking

their interests of listening and speaking.

4.1 Memory ability in listening and

speaking training

Memory ability is the basic ability for student to

learn Business English. The training result will be

impacted if they have bad memory ability. They will

have few impressions on what they heard, losing the

ability to repeat it and impacting improvement of

Business English. Therefore, it is necessary for

teacher to encourage students to try their best to train

their memory ability during the training course. And

there are many methods of training the memory

ability, i.e. listening, writing, and dictation.

4.2 Association ability in listening and

speaking training

Association ability is not only the basic requirement

for student in Chinese article, but also in the

listening and speaking training of Business English.

More useful contents can be extracted through

association. Therefore, much blank information will

be filled. Therefore, students will finally master

more information, better fulfilling their assignment.

It is beyond question that the association ability of

student can be improved by fully opening their

minds.

4.3 Reasoning ability in listening and

speaking training

It is beyond question that memory quality can be

expanded by exercising association ability of

students. As an important basic ability, students with

reasoning ability can know deeply about the fact.

They can acquire the accurate information and

intention from record materials. Thinking ability can

also be improved by exercising their reasoning

ability in listening and speaking training. This is the

reason why teachers need use kinds of ways to help

them practise reasoning and encourage them to form

good habit. Mission in listening and speaking

training can be smoothly accomplished when student

enjoy the reasoning, while the teacher help them in

proper situation. The learning of reasoning ability

can be accomplished by using logical thinking,

imagery thinking and fuzzy thinking. Training result

can only be better if they enjoy the reasoning

activity. In this way, students can understand their

intention in both side of conversation.

4.4 Summarization ability in listening

and speaking training

It is necessary for student to master some basic

abilities during the learning of Business English, and

summarization ability is also required after

mastering some basic abilities. Summarization

ability is integrated their basic abilities, and it is the

high level ability of Business English learning.

Teacher can prepare some materials such as business

material, articles and news. And also teacher can

make them summarize and extract key points of

materials. In this way, their knowledge structure can

be more reasonable and scientific. Teacher can also

encourage them to make study diary, therefore,

training of summarization ability can be achieved by

this method.

4.5 Necessary practice in listening and

speaking training

Overall improvement of listening and speaking can’t

solely reply on the guidance of teacher, participation

of students themselves is required. What the teacher

can support is teaching device, language lab,

listening classroom etc. extra assignments are

needed for students, for example, teacher can let

student watch some business video, and ask them to

make conclusion. And this training method can be

applies in the teaching process.

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5 CONCLUSIONS

Although belonging to English Major, Business

English is a special major. Therefore, as a basic

ability in this major, listening and speaking ability

should be paid more attention. Better learning result

can be assured by stepwise training and English

level of students can be improved. Finally, their

employment can really be achieved through

establishing their professions.

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Cong Lin, Solution of Improving Listening and Speaking

Ability of Business English. Cai Zhi, 2011(14): 35-36

Wang Panpan, Impact to Sino-US Business Negotiation

Because of Culture Difference. Ne Jiang Science.

2010(4):30-31.

Zhang Li, Required Ability of Graduates in Major of

Business English , Science World, 2012(6):52-52.

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