Title: Vocabulary Basics for BusinessLevel: Intermediate to Advanced
Author(s): Barbara G. Cox, Ph.D.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date: 2002
Pages: 320
Size: 1.05 Mb
Format: Compiled HTML Help file (.chm)
Quality: High
Language: English
Vocabulary Basics for Business is intended for adults who wish to improve their English vocabulary. The most common reason for needing to increase or broaden vocabulary is lack of experience with reading. Not surprisingly, thoughtful reading is key to developing a broader vocabulary. Read as much as you possibly can read, anything that interests you, whether magazine or novel, textbook or junk mail, a newspaper or a cereal box, e-mail or Web pages-read. [+/-]
For courses in Business English and Business Writing
This text improves students' communication skills by helping them understand and use English terms appropriately. It relies on principles of language development for effective learning, and approaches the process from various directions—context, analysis, comparisons, and memory devices. Students will benefit from this presentation and accumulation of adult learning experience—and by thinking, comparing, using, and remembering.
Key Features:
• Consistent format in each part
- Features concept; examples; review; and exercises.
- Offers students thorough coverage of “lessons” and reinforces their comprehension.
• Varied approaches to vocabulary mastery and growth
- Includes determining meaning form context; analysis of words; learning words that have similar but not exactly the same meanings; and specific business uses of words.
- Provides students with many tools that they can apply during and after the course to continue language development.
• Current content and vocabulary
- Addresses new language needed in business due to rapid growth and technological change.
• Use of adult experiences and business contexts for examples and explanations.
- Presents students with familiar experiences and contexts, and enables them to recognize, understand, and use phrases as they are used in business settings.
• Numerous exercises–In every lesson
- Requires students to use different strategies of word/phrase recognition, understanding, and use–in order to access their learning and complete the performances.
• An entire part devoted to “troublemakers”
- Identifies terms that repeatedly cause problems or are misused.
• Target word list
- Offers instructors a valuable tool for creating reviews.
For courses in Business English and Business Writing
This text improves students' communication skills by helping them understand and use English terms appropriately. It relies on principles of language development for effective learning, and approaches the process from various directions—context, analysis, comparisons, and memory devices. Students will benefit from this presentation and accumulation of adult learning experience—and by thinking, comparing, using, and remembering.
Key Features:
• Consistent format in each part
- Features concept; examples; review; and exercises.
- Offers students thorough coverage of “lessons” and reinforces their comprehension.
• Varied approaches to vocabulary mastery and growth
- Includes determining meaning form context; analysis of words; learning words that have similar but not exactly the same meanings; and specific business uses of words.
- Provides students with many tools that they can apply during and after the course to continue language development.
• Current content and vocabulary
- Addresses new language needed in business due to rapid growth and technological change.
• Use of adult experiences and business contexts for examples and explanations.
- Presents students with familiar experiences and contexts, and enables them to recognize, understand, and use phrases as they are used in business settings.
• Numerous exercises–In every lesson
- Requires students to use different strategies of word/phrase recognition, understanding, and use–in order to access their learning and complete the performances.
• An entire part devoted to “troublemakers”
- Identifies terms that repeatedly cause problems or are misused.
• Target word list
- Offers instructors a valuable tool for creating reviews.
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