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24 Res. & Sci. Today 289 (2022)
Writing Emails in English: A Key Skill for Business Students

handle is hein.journals/rescito24 and id is 289 raw text is: B I 0. No,2024)/2022 WWW. RST JOU RN AL.CONM ISSN-P: 2247-4455 / ISSN-E: 2285-9632 '39ouatSciences WRITING EMAILS IN ENGLISH: A KEY SKILL FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS Oana Alexandra ALEXA1 ABSTRACT: TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES IS AN ADAPTIVE PROCESS, AS IT REQUIRES THE INSTRUCTOR TO ADJUST PERMANENTLY TO THE STUDENTS' SPECIFIC NEEDS WITH A VIEW TO PREPARING THEM FOR A CAREER IN THEIR CHOSEN FIELD OR HELPING THEM NAVIGATE THEIR WORK TASKS IF THEY ARE ALREADY JOB-EXPERIENCED. WRITING E-MAILS HAS BECOME AN ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL NOWADAYS, BUT FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO GET IT RIGHT, AS THEIR JOB AND/OR THE FUTURE OF THE COMPANY ARE OFTEN AT STAKE, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT A GLOBAL PANDEMIC HAS FORCED US TO REDUCE DIRECT INTERACTION SIGNIFICANTLY. THIS PAPER STARTS FROM ILLUSTRATING THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING BUSINESS WRITING TO STUDENTS BASED ON AVAILABLE RESEARCH ON BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING AND THEN FOCUSES ON PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF HOW TEACHERS CAN IMPROVE BUSINESS STUDENTS' EMAIL WRITING SKILLS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL. IT WILL SHOW THAT MASTERING THIS SKILL LIES AT THE BASIS OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MAIN GOALS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING. KEY WORDS: BUSINESS WRITING, E-MAILS, KEY SKILL, BUSINESS ENGLISH INTRODUCTION Writing emails has been an important part of doing business for a while, but it may never have been as crucial as in the last couple of years, since the global pandemic which debuted in early 2020 has forced us to communicate remotely on such a large scale. Students seem to struggle with the concept of sending emails (even in their native language), but even more so with composing them in English. However, teaching writing is not usually at the forefront of Business English classes at undergraduate level, since it is largely assumed that, by the time they access higher education, students have already acquired the necessary skills allowing them to write business letters/e-mails and also satisfactorily decode such messages coming from administrative or teaching staff. Personal experience as a teacher of English at university level has, nevertheless, confirmed the contrary, a conclusion supported by various studies conducted around the world, attempting to showcase the reasons for such occurrences and also trying to identify the elements that make many students' e-mails inappropriate in a business/work context. Reiterating the fact 1 Assistant Lecturer PhD, Alexandru loan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, oana.alexa@uaic.ro.

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