Strategies for Business English Teachers’ Professional Development

Abstract

Business English teachers’ development is pivotal to the quality of business English teaching and the long-term development of business English program. This study aims to pin down the most important qualities of a business English teacher from students’ perspective and the status quo of business English teachers’ quality through questionnaire survey, then put forward strategies for business English teachers’ professional development. Through analyzing the results of our survey, we found that a business English teacher should be a versatile and applied talent who possesses excellent language competence, teaching competence, research competence as well as extensive business knowledge. Currently, there is room for business English teachers to improve in the aspects of business knowledge, teaching competence and research competence. Based on our survey results, we put forward strategies for professional development of business English teachers from the aspect of external support from education department and universities and the aspect of personal effort.