A Basic English Course for Administration, Business and Computer Science Students

The present course has been designed by a team of Congolese English as a foreign language teaching (EFLT) professionals and communicative language teaching (CLT) practitioners as part of teaching English to students of other languages (TESOL) content.The main targets of this book are EFL teachers and learners whose area of studies are those indicated in the title namely business, administration and computer science. Nonetheless, as an introduction to English letters writing and to computer science English, the content of this book can be of help in the hands of any person interested in English language teaching and/or learning.

About the author
Jonas Mualaba Citala is a teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) by profession. He was trained at Mbuji Mayi teachers’training college (ISP MbujiMay), then at the National teachers’ training college in Kinshasa (IPN Binza) where he graduated in 1989. Since then, he has been teaching English to Congolese students and designing textbooks which have been adopted (by the ministry of education) to teach English in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jonas Mualaba also trains his peer Congolese EFL teachers on how to use the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach.

From 2007 to 2012, Jonas studied theology at the Protestant University of Congo (UPC). In 2018, he was registered at North West University in South Africa where he is about to graduate and get a Masters degree in Christian Ethics. He is a minister of Word within the Presbyterian Church of Kinshasa (CPK) and head of the department of translation at the DR Congo national commission for UNESCO.