Language and Professional Communication in Business Education

Co-chairs:

Vadim Klimachev,
head of international educational projects, the Corporate Institute of Gazprom, Candidate of Science in Economics

V.Klimachev@institute.gazprom.ru

Elena Orlova,
head of Languages for Business and Management department, Associate Professor, Candidate of Science in Psychology, SPSU

orlova@gsom.spbu.ru

Tatyana Martynova,
Associate Professor, Languages for Business and Management department, Candidate of Science in Pedagogy, SPSU

martinova@gsom.spbu.ru

 

Dates: October, 6 – 7

 

We invite researchers, teachers and business practitioners to discuss topical issues of language education in business school and exchange professional experience and research outcomes in the field of language, communication and critical thinking. A diversity of opinions, approaches and methods will help the track participants better understand the current needs of the labor market and tendencies in the training of effective business communicators. The track is a multidisciplinary platform for discussing new societal challenges and solutions that need to be understood here and now.

 

Keywords presenting the track: language, critical thinking, business education, interdisciplinary learning, business communicators, multilingualism in business, global communications

 

Audience:

• Academic audience: researchers, practitioners and everyone who is interested in the discussion of topics on professional communication, language and business in time of global changes and sustaining cultural exchange.
• Business audience. Global communicators who carry out international projects in organizations. Employees of national and international companies who are interested in the discussion of questions on global communications, language and business in time of unprecedented changes and sustaining cultural exchange.

 

October, 6

Day 1. The keynote speech and presentations

Themes:

1. Interpretations of the concepts "language" and "communication" for business education.
2. Professional communications: language aspects.
3. Communicative skills in business. Language and communicative behavior of business communicators.
4. Teaching languages and design of integrated interdisciplinary courses.
5. Humanitarian agenda and language education.
6. Language diversity in modern business education: a tribute to academic traditions or a market requirement?
7. Integrating critical thinking into language and communication courses.

 

Round table: Artificial intelligence and education: what to be ready for and how to prepare?

 

October, 7

Day 2. Round table “Professional Language and Communication. Training of professional business communicators”.