Teaching and Assessing Meeting Skills

The purpose of this article is to describe the way of developing and assessing the meeting skills in the teaching of Business English at the Faculty of Informatics and Management in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. This form of communication supports and reveals not only students' language abilities but also contributes to interdisciplinary relations because students can apply their theoretical knowledge of the core subjects (management or economics) and develop their skill of team work. The article firstly gives brief characteristics of Business English; secondly, it depicts the methods of assessments at the faculty as far as the teaching of English is concerned; and thirdly, it explains how the meeting skills are taught and assessed. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.