Business English teaching-a case study of the SCOPE Project of the Government of Gujarat
J.K. Singh ,Lecturer in English, Y.S. Arts& K.S. Shah Commerce College, Dahod, Gujarat
SCOPE (Society for Creation of Opportunities through Proficiency in English) is an ambitious public private partnership project of the Government of Gujarat which aims at teaching Business English to 3.5 million youth in four years. The paper tries to study the various aspects of the project, from student-trainer profiles to learning material, training methodology and assessment. The learning material is provided by Thomson Learning and the assessment partner of the project is University of Cambridge ESOL. The paper also tries to evaluate the effectiveness of the Business English model for mass English Language Training programme.More
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