BUSINESS ENGLISH IN THE LINGUA FRANCA VERSION AND ITS PEDAGOGIC ASPECTS

Abstract

This paper considers distinguishing features of the Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) from the point of view of the impact of the speaker’s mother tongue or his (her) 1-st language, its lexico-semantic , syntactic and communicative peculiarities. In this article BELF is seen as a tool for communicating business information with accuracy and clarity. The nature of Lingua Franca, in which Business English is embodied, is also considered. Another important aspect of this article is a pedagogic nature of BELF. That is the necessity to find an academic way of dealing with a challenge for the teachers of Business English, caused by the specific position of English as the main language in international business communication. The author surveys the problem in the context of Common European Framework of Reference.