English and French
Language Resources
Ressources Langues et Linguistiques
Anglaises et Françaises
blueline

Business English
for Teachers and Learners

See also: Business English On the Net by Linda Thalman

This page was updated in June 2004. It was originally developed for a presentation on 20 September 1997 called "Business, Breakfast and the Internet" by Linda Thalman for "Learning Curves: Language for Work and Life", sponsored by Longman, Attica and The British Institute in Paris, France.

The focus of the information included here is on teaching and learning business English as a foreign or second language. There are thousands of pages of businesses on the Web, but, for obvious reasons, I have not attempted to include them. Any search engine or directory will take you to them!

Scroll down this page or click on the links to go directly to the topics:
Email Lists, Learning and Teaching Business English, Dictionaries and Glossaries, Magazines and Newspapers, Business Resources, Professional Organizations and Bibliography.

Email Lists for Business and Language Learners

  • See Email Lists for Learners of English in Volterre-Fr for all topics.
    See especially:
    SL-Lists Student Lists for Learners of English as Foreign or Second Language
    BUSINESS-SL, a discussion list on business

    Learning and Teaching Business English

  • Business English Exercises
    http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
    Over 130 exercises related to business English.

  • Business English Podcast
    http://www.businessenglishpod.com/
    Learn English with free business English MP3 podcasts. Each podcast covers useful language for all types of business situations and language skills.

  • Biz/ed
    http://www.bized.ac.uk/
    "Biz/ed is a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers." Their Internet Catalogue has extensive worldwide links. The list of web sites and other resources are mostly oriented to the British academic community.

  • Business Help Page by Ruth Vilmi
    http://www.ruthvilmi.net/BusinessHelp/

  • Business Meetings
    http://www.stir.ac.uk/celt/staff/higdox/Vallance/Diss/fp.htm
    Business Meetings has been designed for students who wish to review English structures associated with business meetings. It is a hypertext program that takes the form of a decision maze.

  • p://www.formavision.com/ellis/Series.htm">Ellis Business Series with information in English and
  • Ellis Business Series with information in French
    an award-winning product worth looking at.

  • Internet-Based Projects for Business English
    http://aei.uoregon.edu/esp/
    Kay Westerfield and Leslie Opp-Beckman have a gold mine of a site. Not to be missed! Behind terminology, projects and resources, you'll be surfing for weeks. Excellent resource.

  • Tips for Business Writing
    http://www.ruthvilmi.net/LangHelp/Writing/index.html
    in Ruth Vilmi's extensive site

    Dictionaries and Glossaries

  • Dictionnaires et Ressources | Dictionaries & Other Resources
    http://www.volterre-fr.com/dictionnaires.html
    In Volterre-Fr

    Magazines, Newspapers & Online Media

  • Newspapers Online in France & Worldwide
    http://www.volterre-fr.com/newspapers.html
    in Volterre-Fr

  • CNN Financial News
    http://cnnfn.com/

    Business Resources

  • WebEc
    http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/WebEc.html
    Web Virtual Library: Economics. "WebEc is an effort to categorize free information on economics on the WWW." A pretty huge collection of information!

  • Stock Market Yellow Pages
    http://www.StockMarketYellowPages.com/
    This site allows you to search for public companies based upon their descriptions.

    Professional Organizations

  • BESIG
    http://www.besig.org/
    BESIG, the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL, is a 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.

  • TESOL
    http://www.tesol.org/
    Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL

    Bibliography

  • Books for Teaching Languages Using the Internet
    http://www.volterre-fr.com/biblio.html
    in Volterre-Fr by Linda Thalman of WebFrance International

  • Volterre-Fr Home Page | Learn & Teach English | Learn & Teach French
    Apprendre & enseigner l'anglais | Apprendre & enseigner le français

    Subscribe Free to the Paris In Sites Newsletter at   http://www.parisinsites.com/

    mailbox logo Email: linda@wfi.fr

    star bullet Created by WebFrance International
          On the Web since September 1995

    WebFrance International Home | Paris In Sites Newsletter | Hotels in Paris & France |
    Castles, Bed & Breakfast, Manors | Apartments | Books & Multimedia |
    Education & Culture | Language Learning | Paris |
    Professional Services - B to B | Travel & Leisure in Paris and France |
    Awards for WFI Sites | List of All WFI Sites |

    WebFrance International
    3 les Grandes Bruyères
    91470 Boullay-les-Troux, France
    Telphone:
    +33 (0)1 60 12 11 44
    Linda Thalman, Director linda@wfi.fr

    Champs-ElyséesChamps-ElyséesThe audiomagazine for people who love France and the French language – and Spanish, Italian & German