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PREFACE

Simple Ways to Practice English for Business is the coursebook
containing English grammar sections, reading comprehension, and
more interesting language materials that are related to economic
and business contexts. It effectively helps English Foreign Language
learners especially undergraduate students improve and practice their
language competencies and comprehension. This English coursebook
is intended to provide more suitable instructional material for teaching
English for a specific purpose in higher education. Rigorously based
on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Contextual Teaching and
Learning (CTL) Methodology, this course book has been developed
under the following views:
1. That there should be a main English coursebook provided for
English for specific purposes in each study program.
2. English subjects should be oriented to the students’ needs for
English relevant to their subject matters in each study program.
3. English for specific purposes should ideally be taught by subject-
matter lecturers/instructors in each study program.
4. Designed coursebook that fits the students’ language skills and
are relevant to business situations hope to be able to improve their
integrated language skills effectively
5. English teachers should be able to encourage their students to
use applicable teaching techniques through this coursebook and
become a partner for their students when linguistic information
and problems need to be explained.
This coursebook is an accomplishment of subject matter lecturers
in collaboration with English language experts, through selective and
careful validation processes. Instructors may use this material in its
present form, emphasizing certain sections considered most relevant
to their students. It is equally possible to select certain lessons within
the module and add their own materials to fulfill the semester
requirements, language competencies, and learning needs.
Hopefully, this coursebook can be used widely as the main
course material at the university level, and lecturers can evaluate
how effectively the book facilitates the students’ language learning.
Thus improvements to this course book can be made from year to
year. Special thanks that the author wants to express addressed to his
beloved parents and family who always encouraged and supported the

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