DVDs, DIEs, and Fluency Squares: Building Fluency & Listening Comprehension for Advanced Students of Business English

Friday, August 9th, 2002, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Ed Smyth, Enterprise Training Group

This presentation is work in progress at Enterprise Training Group in developing materials for Advanced English students. It presents classroom strategies, techniques, and resources which address the language issues Advanced students of English confront in typical business meetings and teleconferences:

1. The need to handle Q&A sessions confidently;
2. The need to comprehend idiomatic English at normal to fast speeds;
3. The need to understand the cultural context of American business and social life.

Currently instructors have a wealth of new formats, media and content to use in classroom instruction. Combining some of the older, standard techniques for fluency and listening comprehension with new media formats can enhance the learning experience by increasing motivation, supplying culturally rich content, and presenting comprehensible idiomatic English. Specifically, we will focus on how to exploit movie content in DVD format by using Fluency Squares and DIE (description, interpretation, evaluation). Ed Smyth is a language and cross-cultural trainer in Tokyo. He is the President of Enterprise Training Group.

Organization: International Business Communicators

Cost: 1000 yen

Venue: Oxford University Press Showroom, Edomizaka Mori Bldg. 1F, 4-1-40 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan

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