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.

David 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 last year 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’. For more details on the award please click here.

Best of BESIG 2

BESIG and TESOL France are pleased to announce a joint event, Best of BESIG 2, which will take place in Paris on 7 June 2008. A Call for Papers is available here; further information including location, accommodation and more will be available on this website soon.

Annual BESIG Conference 2008

We are pleased to announce that the annual BESIG conference will take place at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany, 21 - 23 November 2008. More information will be available shortly.

For links of current interest please follow the links on the right.