Meet-up with researchers at the ICLHE symposium in Vienna
Never stop learning! Xiao Ming Zhu and Catherine Prewett-Schrempf of the Competence Center for Business English recently spent two highly engaging days at the ICLHE Symposium hosted by the University of Vienna. […]Read more on Meet-up with researchers at the ICLHE symposium in Vienna
How meaningful is AI in teaching and exams?
At a presentation by our Competence Center for Business English at the 56th IATEFL Annual Conference in Harrogate, UK, the results and findings of an action-based research project with students and teachers from two undergraduate programs were presented. […]Read more on How meaningful is AI in teaching and exams?
CCBE team lesson plan published as book chapter by Routledge
FHWien der WKW’s Competence Center for Business English (CCBE) is very proud to announce its first contribution to a Routledge teaching resource book. […]Read more on CCBE team lesson plan published as book chapter by Routledge
Competence Center for Business English at “Business English Now” conference
Linda Slattery and Andrew Pullen, Academic Experts & Lecturers at FHWien der WKW’s Competence Center for Business English, traveled in November to Gdansk, Poland. There they attended the 35th annual conference of IATEFL’s Business English Special Interest Group (BEsig) – the world’s largest organization of Business English teaching professionals. The theme of this year’s conference […]Read more on Competence Center for Business English at “Business English Now” conference
CCBE at the 55th IATEFL Conference in Belfast
Simon Lehrner and Matthew Urmston from our Competence Center for Business English were proud to recently present at the most important annual conference in Europe for English instructors. They attended the 55th International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where they held a presentation entitled “Designing engagement: A case study for playful remote […]Read more on CCBE at the 55th IATEFL Conference in Belfast
Review of the 10th Austrian University of Applied Sciences Language Instructors’ Conference
Research meets practice - in person! The 10th Austrian University of Applied Sciences Language Instructors’ Conference was a truly memorable and rewarding experience for all who attended. […]Read more on Review of the 10th Austrian University of Applied Sciences Language Instructors’ Conference
CCBE goes UN
Together with a diverse group of external Business English lecturers, our Competence Center for Business English recently “left” Austria to visit the United Nations. After a guided tour through the main buildings of the Vienna International Center by our extremely engaged tour guide, we sat down for a very meaningful presentation of how labor relations […]Read more on CCBE goes UN
Adding employability value to language acquisition: CCBE presents a newly developed instructional design concept at 34th IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference
Andrew Pullen and Linda Slattery, Competence Center for Business English at FHWien der WKW (CCBE), presented an innovative instructional model at the 34th IATEFL BESIG “Business as Usual” Online Conference from November 12-14, 2021. The annual conference brings together a diverse international body of Business English Language Teaching (ELT) authors, academics and practitioners. They showcased […]Read more on Adding employability value to language acquisition: CCBE presents a newly developed instructional design concept at 34th IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference
CCBE presents two innovative concepts to international English Language Teaching community
How to better prepare students to write and speak in an online landscape: CCBE at the IATEFL BESIG online conference […]Read more on CCBE presents two innovative concepts to international English Language Teaching community
CCBE at the 32nd IATEFL BESIG Annual “Back to Basics” Conference
Catherine Prewett-Schrempf and Linda Slattery attended the 32nd IATEFL BESIG Annual “Back to Basics” Conference in Berlin from 11 – 13 October, mingling and networking with an international body of Business English Language Teaching (ELT) authors, academics and practitioners. During a 45-minute talk entitled “EPortfolios for Grammar Learning”, Catherine and Linda presented the design and […]Read more on CCBE at the 32nd IATEFL BESIG Annual “Back to Basics” Conference