Csilla Jaray-Benn

I established Business English Services in 2007. BES is a professional training organisation based in the Grenoble region in France. BES enables people to enhance their communication skills in English for better efficiency in their daily business activities. BES also provides linguistic assistance to companies, scientific and cultural organisations with professional translation, editing work and project management. One-to-one training sessions, thematic workshops and seminars will help you communicate more effectively through cultures. As a part-time lecturer, I teach Business Communication Skills at IAE Grenoble and design EFL teaching materials for adults and for teenagers. As an active member of two international organisations for teachers of English, TESOL France, where I am an Executive Committee Member and Regional Coordinator and IATEFL and its Business English Special Interest Group, BESIG, I regularly present at international conferences. I am invlolved in linguistic reasearch with main interest in the psychology of SLA and its impact on current teaching practices, including technology enhanced learning. My article published in Teaching Time "Teaching in France: Why is it so difficult?", describes specific difficulties French learners have with the English language and how we can overcome these barriers to their learning. BES offers a unique, tailor-made method to each and every learner built on learners' individual experience, objectives and existing skills, called Collaborative Creative Learning. I set up and direct the Research Committee of the 'Société des amis de Roland Dubillard'. Hold MA degrees in English language and literature, French language, literature and a French DEA in Theatre Studies from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. Following research and two university thesis on Roland Dubillard, published the article 'Les objets-personnages et les personnages-objects dans le théâtre de Roland Dubillard' in the Revue d'Esthétique no 34 (1998).