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Nowadays, teaching Business English has become prominent and omnipresent. Clients are eager to learn Business English thanks to the rampant flow of globalization and technology. In this sense, there are multiple criteria that teachers should be aware of regarding teaching functions, methods and language skills. The functions and roles of teachers and learners are significantly various. Effective teaching involves the multitude roles of teacher during the launch of particular course. Teachers are supposed to be instructor, facilitator, mentor, psychologist, counsellor and policeman all at once. In this regard, teachers are advised to display the various roles effectively according to the situation being involved. For instance, if students need advice regarding their prospective career future, a teacher is likely to be a counsellor. On the other hand, in the field of teaching Business English, students are categorized into two substantial ways, either individual or group clients. In each ways, there pros and cons for the student and teacher simultaneously. Teaching one-to-one client allow students to get full attention and detailed feedback from teachers, for example. Meanwhile, the student might get bored and/or uninterested throughout the course. Similar to teaching English language, teaching Business English requires the use of the four main language skills including listening, reading, writing and speaking. While listening and reading are often called receptive skills, writing and speaking are attributed to productive skills. In Receptive skills, teachers are likely supposed to use mail, Business-based magazines, for reading part, and audio-visual business-based meetings and telephoning, for listening skills. In productive skills, teachers might teach the techniques and tactics of how to write and verbally talk about notes, messages, emails, presentation, for writing and listening skills all at once. In this regard, receptive and productive skills are taught through various teaching methods that vary depending on the teacher and language point intended to be taught. Theories of learning include Grammar Translation, Audio-lingualism, The Silent Way, Tasked-based Learning, PPP and lastly Engage, Study, Phase method. The latter is regarded the most suitable methods for effective and productive input and output of student?s learning process. Hence, the aforementioned explanatory standards pertinent to teachers? functions, language skills, and methods are mandatory for teachers who are willing to teach Business English.
