The JALT Business Communication Special Interest Group aims to develop the discipline of teaching English conducive to participation in the world business community, involving all aspects of business communication, business skills, and business-focused training. We wish to provide instructors in this field with a means of collaboration and sharing best teaching practices. We are building something new: bridges between corporate, academic, and private business English teachers. Sharing research, developing teaching methods, and building a community of teachers and trainers who want to study, learn, and teach about business communication. If we didn't think there was potential to grow this group, we wouldn't be involved. We feel that business English teaching in Japan has a strong and developing future. As the importance of Asian markets grows, so will the need for business English as a lingua franca. Furthermore, we hope that this business-driven need for interactive English will also have a knock-on effect on university and school education practices over the coming years.
