Teacher Competencies for Business English Purpose in the International Universities in Kurdistan

Korazon talib Abdullah

doi:10.21271/zjhs.24.3.18

المؤلفون

Korazon talib Abdullah College of Education- Tishik University- Hawler

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.24.3.18

الكلمات المفتاحية:

ESP, BEL, Teacher competencies.

الملخص

This study is a mixed - method study, including qualitative and quantitative methods. It involves interviews with (8) BE and ELT teachers, and questionnaires survived with (60) BE learners in the international universities in Kurdistan. The findings show that the high level of language proficiency is the most important competence of BE teachers. Then, having English language certification is considered as the most important BE knowledge. The interviewed teachers believed that business certification is not important. On the other hand, the BE learners prefer those teachers with a business-like attitude and appearance. So, two various ideas belong to their different needs. The BE teachers with the friendly, flexibility, reliability and self-confidence have the perfect personal quality according to the quantitative and qualitative results. In addition, both of them chose communication skills as the best method during BE teaching process.

According to the quantitative results writing and reading e-mail, giving and listing presentations and communication with native speakers are useful ….. for practicing the English language. However. Listing to the BE program, reading magazines and watching TV are the useless source for using the English language. At the end, this study explains developing BE teachers either by training course or by self-developing.

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