Teaching English Professional Writing in an E-learning Environment: An Italian Case Study

This paper will report on the author's four-year experience of teaching English for International Organizations and Their Discourse, a course especially developed for the distance learning Master program in Comunicazione nelle Organizzazioni e Imprese Internazionali (Communication in International Organizations and Enterprises) launched by the Linguistic Center of the University of La Tuscia, in Viterbo, Italy, in 2008, and the teaching of a Business Communication course, focused on business writing, initially offered as an elective and subsequently transformed into a core (blended-format) course in the graduate program of Marketing and Quality at the same University. The specific features, aims and target of the two courses will be briefly explained and followed by the discussion of the program development and results obtained.