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Welcome to BESIG

BESIG, the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL, is a truly professional body representing the interests and serving the needs of the international business English teaching community.

BESIG's members are mainly teachers of Business English and include both native and non-native speakers of English. The largest proportion of our members comes from Europe but we also have members in over 50 countries including South America, Africa and Asia. BESIG offers you ways to improve your expertise in teaching Business English and a link with other people in the profession. We do this through our annual international BESIG conferences, regional workshops, regular newsletters and reports describing conference papers/workshops in detail.

Please follow the links on the left to read more about BESIG and to find out how to become involved in our events. For information of current interest please see below or follow the links on the right.


Annual conference 2009: Poznan, Poland

This year's conference will be held in Poznan, Poland over the weekend 20 - 22 November. For more details including an application form for one of five scholarships, hotel information and more please click here.


Cert IBET scholarship

BESIG, Trinity College London, English UK and The Consultants-E are pleased to announce a joint scholarship for an online course leading to the Certificate in International Business English Training (Cert IBET). For details on the Cert IBET, the course and the scholarship please click here.

 

David Riley AwardDavid Riley Award

David Riley was a teacher, writer and publisher of Business and ELT materials. He was renowned in the ELT world for his creation of materials for a range of publishers, big and small. David passed away in 2007 leaving a big gap in the ELT world. To remember him and his rare talent, BESIG and Macmillan are honoured to launch a new industry award - ‘The David Riley Award for Innovation in Business English and ESP’. The winner of the first David Riley Award for Innovation went to Marie McCullagh and Ros Wright for Good Practice Communication Skills for the Medical Practitioner (Cambridge University Press). Congratulations to the winners!

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