(News) Jul 15-Jul18, the fourth Pearson LCCI International Certificate for Teachers of Business English (FTBE) training and evaluation conference was held grandly in Xi’an city. This conference was hosted by Exam Centre of Education Section and Pearson Group, co-organized by English teaching and study organization from universities in Shaanxi province and Pearson LCCI China Training Base, undertook by the Foreign Language College of Xidian University which has a long-term cooperation with LCCI project.

     With the theme of “Invest in your teaching career and give yourself the edge with an LCCI International Qualification”, we specially invited Evan Frendo (the world famous expert in Business English area) to our conference to give the teachers an high standard intellectual feast in business english. Although the weather in July is hot in Xi’an, over 40 attendees from 20 national institutions from all 8 provinces gethered at Xidian University to paticipate this conference. They are respectively from Huaihai Institute of Technology, Shanxi Datong University, Chengdu Information Engineering University, Shanghai University of Technology, Ankang University, Huaiyin Normal University, Chengdu Middle School and Vocational School of Sichuan, Baise University, Yunyang Normal College, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Qujiang No. 1 Middle School, Xi’an International University, Xi’an University, Modern College of Northwest University, Xi’an Aviation Institute, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics etc.

The past three FTBE conferences hold in China have got great achievements and the passing rate of International Examination reached over 87%, thus, it trained a lot of exellent teachers for hundreds of insitutions. This conference with perspectiveness not only offered teachers a great opportunity to absorb new teaching ideas, but also to communicate with the expert directly.

On Jul 15, Xidian University, as the organizer as well as the awarded teaching center of LCCI international course, has become the focal spot that day. The Dean of Xidian University,Mr Yang Yue made a speech which showed the great achievements during the cooperation with LCCI project, and expressed his hope of the further cooperation between the university and LCCI. The director of China Base of Pearson International Certification and School Division, Mr Gao Jianjun also delivered an address in the opening ceremony and wish a complete success of this conference.

After the opening ceremony, the senior Training Specialist Mr Evan Frendo and LCCI business english lecturer, Mr Zhang Yun began the one-week face to face training, and their special teaching method and humor speech are all well received by the attendees.

Pearson LCCI China Training Base ( Xi’an Broad Yard International Training School) devote to apply the qualified international course to the colleges and universities. Their cooperation has expand from the experienced internal operation team to oversea students, and has successfully introduced more than 40 different courses to all kinds of colleges and key middle schools so that cultivated a large number of talents in service outsourcing industry.

Along with this award ceremony, Pearson LCCI China Base ( Xi’an Broad Yard International Training School) will continue to serve the colleges, teachers and students from all over the world with international qualification certificate in great efforts.

In the morning of Jul 18, all the attendees participated the FTBE LCCI Business English Teaching Certification International Examination which is hosted by Chinese Education Department, marked by England Department. We wish all the teachers get a satisfied grade and a good harvest from these days.

Background:
FTBE ( First Certificate for Teachers of Business English ) is recognized by 126 countries and regions across the globe. FTBE is administered by one of the world’s leading professional qualification bodies. LCCI ( London Chamber of Commerce). Participants are required to have a solid foundation in Business English teaching Prior to training and examination. The test covers business practices and business-specific lexicon. Successful candidates are awarded with an LCCI Business English Teacher Certification.

Processing of FTBE examinations is fast, efficient, and secure. LCCI protocol requires that all exams be sent to Chinese examintion centers before being sent together to a UK examintion center. Turnaround time for results is very fast.