Foreign Language Skills II: International Business Communication

Contents

• Aspects of intercultural communication in the business world: critical situations and case studies; key words of intercultural communication; short presentations by participants about selected business cultures
• Communication strategies for meetings and negotiations (with the help of simulations or respectively, smaller case studies)
• Training of the structures of English business correspondence and the written communication within a corporation (letters, e-mails, memos)
• Training and deepening of important grammatical constructions and technical terms for the communication in the business world

Learning outcomes
On the one hand, students acquire practice oriented skills (writing business correspondence, preparation and execution of meetings and negotiations), on the other hand, their intercultural and communicative competence will be encouraged in order to secure successful social interaction with the English-speaking business world. In this connection, a special focus lies on the fortification of the communicative and social competencies and the acquisition of communication techniques and negotiation strategies.

Necessary prerequisites
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Recommended prerequisites
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Examiner Performing lecturer

Christiane Koch Linh Thlang Linh Thlang, Christiane Koch