BESIG - the Business English Special Interest Groups of IATEFL http://www.besig.org 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. http://www.besig.org Registration for the BESIG Conference 2008 is now open. http://www.besig.org/events/conf2008/registration.htm We are inviting nominations for the role of Events Coordinator on the BESIG Committee. http://www.besig.org/callfornominations.htm We are currently gathering information about the course fees we charge out students - please do contribute to our wiki. http://besig.wikispaces.com/Fees David Riley was a teacher, writer and publisher of Business and ELT materials. Unfortunately he passed away last year. In order to commemorate David and his work BESIG and Macmillan are honoured to launch a new industry award - "The David Riley Award for Innovation in Business English and ESP". http://www.besig.org/davidrileyaward.htm BESIG will be holding its annual conference 21 - 23 November 2008 in Bonn, Germany. http://www.besig.org/events/index.htm The Call for Papers is now available for the 2008 conference. http://www.besig.org/events/conf2008/speakerprop.htm Information on and an application form for 5 scholarships to the 2008 conference are now available. http://www.besig.org/events/conf2008/scholarshipsform.htm BESIG held a pre-conference event on Monday, 7 April 2008, before the main IATEFL conference. For more information including the speakers' PowerPoint presentations please visit the site. http://www.besig.org/events/pce2008/index.htm Following the success of the Best of BESIG 2006 in Paris, TESOL France and IATEFL BESIG have decided to come together for a second time. http://www.besig.org/events/bob22008/index.htm Registration for Best of BESIG 2 is now open. http://www.tesol-france.org/register_2008bb.php Materials from a number of sessions of the 2007 conference are now available online. http://www.besig.org/events/conf2007/sessions.htm We are currently carrying out a member survey about the newsletter and other BESIG-related aspects. If you are a paid-up member of IATEFL and BESIG we would be grateful if you would complete the survey. http://www.besig.org/survey.htm Photos of the conference are now available online. If you took photos please share them on flickr.com with the tag besig2007 . http://www.besig.org/events/conf2007/photos.htm Every year we hold one major international conference and several smaller local workshops and other events - details of all events are available here. http://www.besig.org/events/index.htm This year's BESIG conference will take place in Berlin, Germany. Visit the site for more details. http://www.besig.org/events/conf2007/index.htm We are pleased to announce that the 20th Annual BESIG conference will take place in Berlin, 16 - 18 November 2007. http://www.besig.org/events/index.htm View events of interest to Business English trainers, or add your own http://www.besig.org/events/calendar.htm As one of our services to the Business English teaching community we offer an e-mail discussion list. Join the Yahoo group by e-mail, or view the RSS version at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/rss . http://www.besig.org/mailinglist/index.htm A large number of useful links for BE teachers and learners. Updated 08. February 2005. http://www.besig.org/links.htm 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. http://www.besig.org/articles/index.htm BESIG is part of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL). For further information on how to become a member please visit http://www.iatefl.org . http://www.besig.org/join.htm Do you have any services or products of interest to Business English teachers? Are you an individual or a company looking to attract customers? Why not use BESIG to spread the word! Update: Banner ads now available on the BESIG website. http://www.besig.org/publicity.htm BESIG committee members. http://www.besig.org/committee.htm Contact Us! http://www.besig.org/contact.htm