其他摘要：It is an undeniable fact that the world emerges as a global community with all the countries competing and collaborating with one another. This world calls for graduates from the universities equipped with abilities to communicate with people from different countries to push forward the development of all aspects. Business English Listening and Speaking course should help students, not just English majors but also students of other specialties to better adapt to their future work by providing them with necessary knowledge of business etiquette, cultural differences, speaking manners and the like so that they can be more confidently engaged in their work. Studies on business English and on multimodal discourse are not lacking today, but very few of them have adopted this theory in the Business English Listening and Speaking course. This paper aims to analyze the different modalities in this type of classroom and how these modalities combined can improve the effectiveness of students’ learning. Hopefully this paper will give some lights on future related studies.
其他关键词：Business English Listening and Speaking;modality;multimodal discourse
