WILLIAMSON Josef   Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Management   Associate Professor

■ Title   Small talk: Sociopragmatic discord in the Business English classroom

■ Outline   An increasing corporate need for English communicative proficiency, driven by globalization and domestic population decline, makes it imperative that low English sociopragmatic competence among corporate learners be more effectively addressed by teachers. Spencer-Oatey's sociopragmatic principles (Spencer-Oatey & Jiang, 2003) offer one solution. A context-dependent framework based on SIPs offers analytical and pedagogical utility for corporate English training by helping to identify salient areas of sociopragmatic discord between learner and comparison groups. In this research report, an SIP^based framework for Business English samll talk in Western English-speaking groups is used to explore sociopragmatic competence in a Japanese corporate English training context.   Single   Proceedings of JALT 2015: Focus on the Learner, 2016   The Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT)      2016

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