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This chapter will:
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Present practical insights into business discourse teaching on the basis of interviews with a number of prominent business discourse teachers who have also been active as researchers and consultants;
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Consider some of the ways in which they have used business discourse research in their teaching and incorporated new media and digital technologies;
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Highlight their views on what they expect to be important areas and themes in the field of business discourse in the future;
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Provide a set of further readings.
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Ilie, C., Nickerson, C., Planken, B. (2019). Interviews with Business Discourse Teachers. In: Teaching Business Discourse. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96475-1_8
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