An Initial Study on Proficiency Scales for Business English for Chinese Users

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10.2991/icmess-14.2014.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

business English, proficiency, standards, scales

Abstract

In spite of the over 100 years of English education as a second language in China and the introduction of modern business English into the said country, standards for the proficiency of the language have never been set up. A possible solution, being explored by researchers at home and abroad, may be a set of proficiency scales to be developed from Chinese English users’ perspective [1]. This essay, as a periodical achievement under a government-sponsored project, a Research into the Standards for Business English Proficiency in the Background of Fostering Xi’an into a Northwestern International City in China, tries to demonstrate the author’s initial study on the issue and trigger more endeavors toward it.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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