Welcome
Welcome to the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Business Communication Special Interest Group's website. We aim to develop the discipline of teaching English conducive to participation in the world business community, involving all aspects of business communication, business skills and business focused training. We wish to provide instructors in this field with a means of collaboration and sharing best teaching practices.
We are building something new: bridges between corporate, academic and private business English teachers. Sharing research, developing teaching methods, and building a community of teachers and trainers who want to study, learn and teach about business communication. If we didn't think there was potential to grow this group, we wouldn't be involved. We feel that business English teaching in Japan, has a strong and developing future. As the importance of Asian markets grow, so will the need for business English as a lingua franca. Furthermore, we hope that this business driven need for interactive English will also have a knock-on effect on university and school education practices over the coming years.
Awards
The JALT CUE and BizCom ESP Symposium on September 21, 2019, at Uchida Yoko in Osaka has won a Platinum Equal Voices in ELT (EVE) award for a balance of both gender and highly proficient L1 / L2 speaker parity.
The JALT Business Communication SIG's 3rd annual conference, which was held at Toyo University on September the 8-9, 2018 won a green Equal Voices in ELT (EVE) award for highly proficient L1/L2 speaker parity.
