English Advanced for Business B

Name Zhou Yaping
Student number 1323440
Assignment Title Report
Lecturer’s Name Dr Tony Shannon-Little

BA (Hons) English for International Business Communication
Wolverhampton: School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication Contents Executive Summary 1 Terms of Reference 2 Analysis 3 Participation 3 Group work 3 Evaluation of Content 4 Animal texting case 4 My language use & development 5 Recommendations 5 Conclusions 6 References 7 Appendices 8 Appendices 1 8 Appendices 2 10 Appendices 3 12

Executive Summary
Firstly, the report analysed participation and group work in two parts. It has expressed that how to be participation in a group and theorises or experiences of group works. Following that, it has discussed evaluation of group study and individual development. These reports recommend that in a group work, people should focus on formal language use, cooperation, communication, information and time and task management.

Terms of Reference In this report, it has analysed our group work in this module, also evaluate case of animal testing and personal development of language use. Besides, it gave some recommendations for group work and self-development. It is in order to continue development of our skills and learn the theories or task management with animal testing case.
Analysis
Participation
Participation is important if you work together with other people. Without it, a single idea cannot be called “group work”. For example, when I first work in a group, I am wondering how to join in a group and how to share my idea and experiences to my teammates. Also, utilize some information and translate in English is difficult for me. Most of time I had kept quiet, but fortunately, our teammates always encouraged me and gave me more chances to share my idea. Besides, they give me some suggestions for the project and if I faced problems with English they will corrected me. Based on the help from teammate and my pre-learning of subjects, I have been enjoyed to participate in the group work. In my points of view that work together is a value way for people to exchange idea and advance speaking, communication, and analysis themselves. Moreover, for personal, participate a group well are also need this elements, such as speaking, timing, enthusiasm, cooperation, thinking and information preparation.
Group work
Group work, in another word is team work. It is a way to dividing work and increasing productivity. Also, it always utilized different knowledge, experience, talent, discussion by people. Therefore, in colleges and school prefer to use it to improve student group-based ability in the work places.( Infed, 2014)
Through the whole years study, group works occupy an important part. Based on participation of it, for me and my teammate have learnt a lot, including time and task management, cooperation, discussion and summary. For teamwork, especially task management and cooperation are important. A good task management is a first fundamental step for a group which can divide work well and make our arrangement clearly. Besides, in the following work of group is do a meeting together and discuss our topic or share people idea. The cooperation of a group is the main thing which we need to focus on. For example, if a group does not agree with a programmer after debate, the work cannot be continued. Because of teammates which have different background and thinking will put forward different ideas. In a result, in our responsibility, for member of a group, people should interrelate with teammate in a positive way.
Evaluation of Content
Animal texting case Evaluation is a logical method which evaluate the worth of object. In addition, a satisfied evaluation cannot without management ability, sensitivity to multiple stakeholders, analysis talent and other skills. It is aims to aids in decision-making. (Social research methods, 2006) Take animal testing case as an example, our group was character as an animal protector organization. The negative side are both me and one of my teammates had less about animal protection, especially animal texting because the social environment are not allowed for demonstration in China. However, there are lots of animal protection groups in Europe. We ask some classmates to share their knowledge about animal protect. After that, we combine the information of search, the experiences from other people and our teacher’s advices. We finally do some change for our animal testing statement and finish as well as we can.
My language use & development At the beginning of my language in a group work, it had a terrible structure. Although my teammate can understand me, it is hard work for them to be clearly about my views completely. Besides, my language use always general and too simple during the group work, however, the statement is necessary to use formal language. In order to prefer our statement, after the first writing of the statement we check the sentences again and again and change the language use in a formal way. Depend on it, in speaking, I am prefer to share and talk to them, especially with foreigner. After a period of time, I found it that my speaking is better than before and I am built confident for my language. Furthermore, I can understand people clearly in our group which means I can put forward my suggestion for their work. Additionally, I have already had some knowledge about statement between formal languages. For example, in our group’s statement, I wrote a sentence” FAT will write a letter to government and prefer the law of cruel treat of animal.” Finally, we change it became a formal sentences likes “FAT will write letters to the members of the legislature about the issue of vivisection”. So, group work which has benefit for my study a lot.
Recommendations
First of all, it is useful that use a formal language and common vocabulary and phrases use in a common file. Besides, list some strange vocabulary and language structure in personal notebooks. Secondly, arrange a timetable of group’s meeting and following the arrangement. It is a great method that benefit for your time management which is important for everything. Thirdly, conclusion your work every day and evaluate your work then you can learn from it and develop yourself quickly. Finally, communicate or interaction with teammates. Do not afraid mistakes, a problem and question is a better way for your successful in a group. Search skill has play an fundamental role in the work, therefore, practice more, improve more.
Conclusions
In a conclusion, group work is not just for an individual study, but also cooperation with other people. It is not a performance for yourself, but a group show. In my opinion, group work is a collectivism of Hofstede analysis which has more power than individual and I toward to work together. Also, in a group, teammate can distribute the work with their strength. Instead, there are also have the disadvantage, group work with non-cooperation and argue will damage work quantity and efficiency. In additions, it is positive for me that I improve myself in different aspect. Such as language use, communication, cooperation, time arrangement, task management and so on. I am enjoy work with each other, it is more useful for our study. We need communication, need speak more and desire knowledge. Eventually, in the future study or work, teamwork will accompany us everywhere and every time. Therefore, focus on teamwork now is an excellent choice for people.
References
Infed, (2014), What is group work? [online], [accessed 2 May, 2014], Available at:< http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-groupwork/>
Social research methods, (2006), Introduction to Evaluation, [online], [accessed 2 May, 2014], Available at:< http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/intreval.php>

Appendices
Appendices 1 Name : Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur GuezGroup: Campaign Meeting No: 1Time /date/place/duration 20/02/2014, Library, 2.5 hoursTeam members present: Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur Guez | AIMSClarify the role of our groupDecide our aimsAssign a tasks to everyoneDECISIONSList points of the aims and explain themDecide our own worksDrafting the task AYOUR TASKS TO DO NEXTSearch the information about animal protection organization and exchange our ideas.Correct and decide the main point of task ADiscuss different cases | YOUR COMMENTS ONTEAM’S PROGRESS IN THE TASKINTERACTION BETWEEN MEMBERS(Style of interaction e.g. Belbin types)WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE TOPICHOW YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR ENGLISH |

Appendices 2 Name : Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur GuezGroup: Campaign Meeting No: 2Time /date/place/duration 27/02/2014, Library, 2 hourTeam members present: Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur Guez | AIMSSift the better aim of last meetingDiscuss the Toyota case from the class and find the helpful experiencesExchange ideasCorrect task ADECISIONSList main points of the aims YOUR TASKS TO DO NEXTDiscuss structure of task B | YOUR COMMENTS ONTEAM’S PROGRESS IN THE TASKINTERACTION BETWEEN MEMBERS(Style of interaction e.g. Belbin types)WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE TOPICHOW YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR ENGLISH |

Appendices 3 Name : Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur GuezGroup: Campaign Meeting No: 3Time /date/place/duration 12/03/2014, Library, 2 hourTeam members present: Chen Cheng, Zhou Yaping, Arthur Guez | AIMSSift the better aim of last meetingDiscuss the Toyota case from the class and find the helpful experiencesExchange ideasDECISIONSList 6 points of the aims Drafting the task AYOUR TASKS TO DO NEXTCorrect the task A / Discuss structure of task B | YOUR COMMENTS ONTEAM’S PROGRESS IN THE TASKINTERACTION BETWEEN MEMBERS(Style of interaction e.g. Belbin types)WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE TOPICHOW YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR ENGLISH |