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The BESIG Committee would like to thank all the presenters and delegates who made this year's conference, held at Siemens in Munich, such a success. Full details of next year's event in Berne, Switzerland, will be posted as soon as IATEFL has given the go-ahead.

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COMMENTS ON THE BESIG 2000 CONFERENCE

I wanted to congratulate you and everyone involved in the conference for a job well done. Although it got off to a slow start for me with a very bad book presentation, it picked up after that and seemed to get progressively better with the grand finale being Robert Gibson's workshop on inter-cultural training. … Thanks very much for all the effort. It was really worth it.
Marilyn Raider-Beck

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for BESIG in Munich!
Christine Kampczyk

I just wanted to thank you for looking after us so well at the conference. I thought it was one of the best I have attended. Congratulations.
Jeremy Comfort, York Associates

Thank you for what was an extremely well organised BESIG. Standard of presentations was generally very high this time - partly because of the instructions you had given all of us beforehand.
Crayton Walker

I've just returned from an excellent weekend at the BESIG conference in Munich. Well done to the organisers. Most of the sessions I attended were stimulating and enjoyable and I now have a lot of homework to do. I have a personal suggestion for future conference programmes. With one or two exceptions, the presentations at this year's BESIG were not directly concerned with presenting research or theory. I would appreciate hearing from academics and others doing research in the field of Business English - looking at learning theory, cognitive psychology, analysis of what Business English is etc. and what implications that has for book writers and practitioners. I get the impression that most people are quite happy to use a text book and never really question the implicit theory behind it, beyond a sceptical "well this seems to be the latest fad, let's give it a go." The sessions from Grant Eustace and Crayton Walker both challenged this complacency, though both admitted that they were not in a position to do the kind of serious research necessary to follow up the ideas they presented. Who is doing interesting research? Invite them to the next BESIG.
Ivan Midgley, Linguarama Cologne

Je pense que toute la troupe d'organisation de BESIG peut être très contente de la conférence 2000. L'atmosphère a été très agréable ainsi que les salles et le catering. Quelle impression a tu eus des présentations? Un grand merci encore à toi ainsi qu'à tes collegues de BESIG!!!
Florence