On Sunday, 8 September, the IATEFL BESIG Online Team was delighted to host the webinar “How the new CEFR can help Business English teachers” with Kirsten Waechter. In this webinar, Kirsten Waechter took a closer look at some new features of…
Galina Khinchuk This week’s interviewee made her mark at the conference in Iasi where she effortlessly managed to be everywhere at once as a conference photographer. Now, we get the chance to discover more about Galina Khinchuk including her…
Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat Thanks for joining us again! I hope you’ve been enjoying this interview series! This week, we meet Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat, another longstanding BESIG member who teaches business English through teaching core values such as empowerment and…
On Sunday, 11 August, the IATEFL BESIG team was happy to welcome everyone to the webinar on case studies with Claire Hart We all feel that we should be using case studies with our business English learners, but we aren’t…
Sherri Williams This week brings another exciting interview with a engaging member, Sherri Williams. Read on to find out how winning the Marie Keller first-time speaker scholarship impacted Sherri and her BESIG experience, and also about how she uses…
Isabella Keilani This week sees another story as we meet a BESIG member with an intriguing professional background. Read on to hear about how Isabella Keilani went from the world of translating and interpreting to that of teaching and…
If you ask engineers to describe their jobs, it is very likely that you will get an answer like this: “It is a creative job which involves working on a variety of projects, solving problems, understanding and explaining processes.” However,…
Ian Badger Through the last six interviews, we have had the chance to meet a very diverse and intriguing array of BESIG members, and this week adds another gem to the treasure trove. Ian Badger has been a loyal…
Virginia Lopez Grisola BESIG members come from every corner of the world. So far, we’ve interviewed and “met” members based in Germany, India, Austria and Romania. This week, we’re adding a country to the list: Argentina! Read on to…
22 June 2019 proved to be an important milestone for IATEFL BESIG, as on this day the IATEFL BESIG Online Team hosted the 3rd IATEFL BESIG Online Symposium. The theme of the event was Future-proofing Business English Teaching and was…