International Business Secretarial English Proficiency Study

With reform and opening up, our resumption of membership with the WTO, and the globalization of business activities, the English competence of international business secretaries is more and more important for international businesses.This thesis undertakes a social questionnaire survey and needs analysis of the international business secretarial competence and relevant English proficiency from the perspectives of social needs on the basis of needs analysis theory integrating the theories and principles of English for specific purposes, secretarial studies,language competence, intercultural competence, scales of linguistic competence, etc.From an integrated theoretical and empirical approach, the thesis puts forward a new concept, i.e. intercultural secretarial communicative competence on the basis of international business secretarial job requirements.This thesis undertakes the study of intercultural secretarial communicative competence on the basis of linguistic competence of English, which is by and large the English secretarial competence for the international business secretaries.Moreover, this thesis also elaborates upon the composition of international business secretarial competence and comes up with a framework of the intercultural secretarial communicative competence and a detailed description of the sub-competencies involved.