ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of the teaching approaches discussed by researchers in English for Specific Purposes that teachers can incorporate into their Business English courses. It shows how these can be used to meet the needs of different types of learners, particularly in mixed proficiency classrooms. The chapter suggests how one of these approaches in particular can help teachers of Business English who do not have an extensive knowledge of business. It focuses on project-based learning, team-teaching, and blended learning, and illustrates each of these with a number of examples taken from different teaching environments, where they have been used with very different types of students. Each teaching approach provides course designers with the opportunity to integrate and present authentic, specialist content as input for communication-centred activities and language-centred tasks. Authentic, content-based input can help to make business language more meaningful to learners because it presents the language in a context of use that is directly relevant to course designers.
