随着经济改革的深入和对外开放的需要,英语在特区经贸活动中的地位和作用越发显著。如何提高这学科的教学质量,迅速造就大批合格的中等商业人才,乃是一个重要课题,值得认真探讨。《英语》是一门语言实践课,教学的最终目标是培养学生的交际能力。因此,经济特区的商业英语教学应特别侧重听说能力的训练,如果闯不过“听说关”便失去意义。如,不久前一名外国游客走进集邮门市部,想买些纪念邮票。营业员不懂英语,便从办公室请出一位大学毕业的干部,谁知此人学的英语无法与老外沟通,最后只好借助书写才明白对方的意思;还有一回,本校一名经管专业学生到第一百货公司实习,遇一群外宾前来购物,店里数十名受 With the deepening of economic reform and the need of opening to the outside world, English plays a more and more prominent role and role in the economic and trade activities of the SAR. How to improve the quality of teaching in this subject and quickly create a large number of qualified middle-level commercial talents is an important issue that deserves serious discussion. “English” is a language practice class, the ultimate goal of teaching is to develop students’ communicative competence. Therefore, the commercial education in the SEZs should pay special attention to the training of listening and speaking abilities. For example, not long ago a foreign tourist went to the stamp shop to buy some commemorative stamps. Salesperson do not understand English, then from the office please a cadre of university graduates, who knows this person can not communicate with foreigners learn English, and finally had to use writing to understand each other’s meaning; another time, the school a governed professional students to The first department store internship, in case of a group of foreign guests come to shopping, the store dozens of subject