Teacher competencies for business English purpose in the international Universities in Kurdistan

Abstract EN

This study tries to show the specific competencies of Business English teachers (BET), which are including knowledge, skills and personal qualities.

The business English teachers should experience those competencies.

Thus, they can help BE teachers to care the business course successfully and discovering the requirements of BE learners easily.

This study consists of four chapters, the first one deals with the introduction and several key definitions.

The second chapter illustrates to the literature review, and theoretical issue about BE teachers, learners and the teaching process.

The third chapter refers to the research design, results from an interview with BE teachers, SPS data analysis of BE learner‟s questionnaires survived, discussions and findings.

The last chapter includes a conclusion and recommendation.

This study is a mixed - method study, including qualitative and quantitative methods.

It involves interviews with (8) BE and ELT teachers, and questionnaires survived with (60) BE learners in the international universities in Kurdistan.

The findings show that the high level of language proficiency is the most important competence of BE teachers.

Then, having English language certification is considered as the most important BE knowledge.

The interviewed teachers believed that business certification is not important.

On the other hand, the BE learners prefer those teachers with a business-like attitude and appearance.

So, two various ideas belong to their different needs.

The BE teachers with the friendly, flexibility, reliability and self-confidence have the perfect personal quality according to the quantitative and qualitative results.

In addition, both of them chose communication skills as the best method during BE teaching process.

According to the quantitative results writing and reading e-mail, giving and listing presentations and communication with native speakers are useful …..

for practicing the English language.

However.

Listing to the BE program, reading magazines and watching TV are the useless source for using the English language.

At the end, this study explains developing BE teachers either by training course or by self-developing.