A First Approach to Distance Education for the Teaching of Business English in the Superior School of Energy and Mining

Dora Troitiño Díaz

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A First Approach to Distance Education for the Teaching of Business English in the Superior School of Energy and Mining

Dora Troitiño Díaz

Published in Higher Education Research (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Received: 26 March 2019 Accepted: 9 May 2019 Published: 4 June 2019

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This paper aims at giving a general overview of the steps followed to implement the distance course for business English teaching in this school. There is an ever-increasing demand for English teaching and learning activities in Cuba as worldwide. The directors, managers, buyers and specialist from different branches of the Ministry of Energy and Mining need to prepare in this language, but there is a shortage of time for studying face to face and here it is where the distance education begins to play its important role in the preparation of the Ministry staff. This course is an alternative for higher rank officers at the Ministry to improve their business English skills. The course is set up in Moodle e-learning platform which eases the teaching process not only for the students but also the professor. The article provides with the course structure as well as an explanation of each one. It socializes some advantages and disadvantages found while implementing this course.

Published in	Higher Education Research (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.her.20190402.11
Page(s)	26-29
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Distance Education, English for Specific Purposes, Moodle

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