ABSTRACT

With the further development of China's foreign trade, its relations with other countries are closer and closer, and English business correspondence writing requirements have been further improved. And business correspondence writing requires us to have full understanding on the knowledge of international trade practice. However, there are all sorts of inaccuracy in business correspondence, leading to the failure of further cooperation and negotiation. Therefore, the author will analyze and conclude the different error types of international trade practice knowledge in business correspondence, explain the reasons for the errors and propose a corresponding scheme. In this thesis, the author has discovered that there are three main error types, inappropriate use of the trade terms, inappropriate use of the payment method and inappropriate use of the foreign trade abbreviations. Students’ lacking in professional knowledge and teachers’ prim teaching methods lead to these errors. In order to reduce or avoid these errors, students and teachers need to make the joint efforts so as to achieve better teaching effect, meet the learning needs of students and enterprise demand by person, and raise more applied English talents.

Key words：English business correspondence；International Trade Practice；trade terms

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

摘要

Chapter One INTRODUCTION-..1

Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW-2

 2.1 An Overview of English Business Correspondence-2

2.1.1 Definitions, classification, and principles of business correspondence-2

 2.1.2 Functions of business correspondence-3

 2.2 An Overview of International Trade Affairs.6

2.2.1 Standard trade terms in business correspondence-6

2.2.2 Terms of payment in business correspondence-9

2.2.3 Abbreviations in business correspondence-9

 2.3 Summary-11

Chapter Three Errors Analysis of the Knowledge of International Trade Practice -12

3.1 Existing Problems in Business Correspondence Writing-12

3.1.1 Inappropriate use of trade terms-13

3.1.2 Inappropriate use of payment method-14

3.1.3 Inappropriate use of foreign trade abbreviations-15

3.2 Reasons for Those Errors-16

3.2.1 Reasons on students' part-17

3.2.2 Reasons on teachers' part-18

Chapter Four Suggestions for Solving the Problems-20

4.1 Improving Classroom Teaching-20

4.1.1 Suggestions for teachers in class teaching-20

4.1.2 Suggestions for students in class teaching-21

4.2 Strengthening Practice Training-22

4.2.1 Suggestions for teachers in practice training-22

4.2.2 Suggestions for teachers in practice training-23

Chapter Five CONCLUSION-24

REFRENCES-27