Newsletter articles

BESIG publishes a newsletter every 4 months. The newsletter is by and for our members and contains articles of interest to Business English teachers - teaching tips, book reviews, event reports and more. Please follow the links on the right for some sample articles.

Contents of latest issue

Editorial – Julia Waldner

Letter from the Joint Coordinators – Marjorie Rosenberg and Paul East

BESIG Conference Reports

Wolfgang Ridder, John Warner and Andrzej Stesik
Kenny Christian
Anisoara Pop
Andreea Pulpea
Muditha Cooray

Articles

Stages in BE Immersion Teaching to University Students of Economics - Oleg Tarnopolsky, Svitlana Kozhushko and Valentyna Zhevaga
Perspectives on Technology: Teaching,
Learning and Assessment - Russell Whitehead
Reflection in Practice - Roy Bicknell
The Role of the Native Speaker in the Business English Classroom - Sabrina Mallon-Gerland

Classroom Activities

A Letter Offering an Apology – Michael Berman
Importance and Role of Storytelling in the Business World - Mercedes Viola
Business Toolkit (The BE Teacher as a Community Builder) - Monica Hoogstad
The Learning Technologies Page – Barney Barrett and Pete Sharma

If you find the above contents or the sample articles of interest, why not join BESIG and receive the newsletter as part of your membership!

Contributing to the newsletter - Business Issues

Business Issues, the publication of BESIG – the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL (the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) – is published three times a year - in spring, summer and autumn.

Copy dates for articles and advertisements are as follows:

Newsletter issue	Submission deadline	Issue date
Spring	10 December	end February - mid March
Summer	10 March	end May - mid June
Autumn	10 June	end August - mid September

Articles should be between 400 and 800 words. Although every effort will be made to include articles accepted for publication in the next issue, BESIG reserves the right to postpone publication if necessary. BESIG also reserves the right to refuse any article.

Submissions should be emailed to the Newsletter Editor: julia.waldner@besig.org

Please include your name, address and, if possible, a photo of yourself and some biographical details – maximum 30 words – so we can tell our readers who you are. They are interested!

Photographs and graphics should be saved separately as .jpg files (not embedded in Word documents).

Advertising

Advertising is also very welcome (see Publicity Opportunities page) Please contact the Newsletter Editor if you are interested.

Copyright requirements: teachers and institutions wanting to copy any part of Business Issues, and other publications wanting to reprint, should contact the Newsletter Editor for permission and notification of credit lines, etc.