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Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Vera A. Dugartsyrenova
Using a critical approach in source-based writing remains a primary challenge for many learners, especially undergraduate-level L2 writers. However, studies examining the use of explicit pedagogical approaches to address this challenge in literature review writing instruction to undergraduate L2 writers are still limited. To bridge this gap, based on a measurement of students' ( = 46) writing performance
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“Come along for a tweetorial!”: Recontextualization strategies in biomedical publication-promoting tweetorials Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 María-José Luzón
The need to promote research and make it visible to various audiences has led to the emergence of various digital genres which seek to draw attention to research publications. Tweetorials, long Twitter threads to communicate complex concepts, are increasingly being used by medical researchers to report on and promote their own published articles and preprints, in the competive context of academic publishing
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“Maybe, but probably not”: A cross-disciplinary study of negation in Three Minute Thesis presentations Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shuyi Amelia Sun, Feng Kevin Jiang, Yanhua Liu
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‘Table 1 shows that…’: A local grammar of graphic data commentary in discourse of Economics Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Lei Zhang, Rui Jiang, Junmei Zhang
This paper analyzes discourse acts in an ESP context from a local grammar perspective. We illustrate this analysis by constructing a local grammar for the discourse act of commenting on information in graphics, i.e., graphic data commentary in the discourse of Economics. Based on a corpus of research articles of Economics, we extracted instances of graphic data commentary that contain lexical items
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Review of “Conducting genre-based research in applied linguistics: A methodological guide” | Conducting genre-based research in applied linguistics: A methodological guide, Matt Kessler, Charlene Polio (Eds.), Routledge, New York and London (2024), $39.16 (paperback), pp. X+247, ISBN: 9781032292823 Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Tao Li, Lawrence Jun Zhang
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Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Songyun Chen
Sentiment analysis has garnered significant attention in the academic field lately, which gives academic scholars a full comprehension of how emotion states are communicated in texts and how it works as a powerful persuasion strategy for academic writers. Based on a large dataset of over five million tokens, this study examined specific emotions in research articles across 18 subdisciplines of medicine
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A practitioner's commentary on C. Chan (2009): “Forging a link between research and pedagogy: A holistic framework for evaluating business English materials” Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Alan Simpson
In this commentary, I discuss the value of Chan's (2009) research-informed checklists for evaluating business English materials by providing a practitioner's approach to using the checklists. I adapted the checklists for three different uses. The first was to evaluate the teaching methodology followed in a business English textbook from an ESP series. The second use was as a guide and evaluation tool
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John Flowerdew, Pejman Habibie, Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes, John Flowerdew, Pejman Habibie, Routledge, New York (2022), pp. 156, $39.16, E-Book, ISBN: 9780367330583 Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Javad Zare, Ahmad Al-Issa
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Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL) Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Mustafa Özer, Erdem Akbaş
The assembly of corpus-based discipline-specific word lists for pedagogical purposes has recently been on the rise (e.g., Arndt, 2022; Fraser, 2007; O'Flynn, 2019; Yang, 2015). In order to cater to the needs of learners in veterinary medicine (VM) and for field-specific academic literacy, this paper analyses a reiteration of the Veterinary Medicine Corpus (Özer and Akbaş, 2023; hereafter the VMC),
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Strengthening the interface between research and pedagogy in business English and beyond Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Clarice S.C. Chan
As part of the special issue “Business English: Research into Professional Practice”, this article aims to contribute to a major discussion in the field of business English concerning ways of strengthening the research–pedagogy interface. The article is a commentary on my previously published paper, “Forging a link between research and pedagogy: A holistic framework for evaluating business English
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A practitioner's commentary on C. Chan (2019): Long-term workplace communication needs of business professionals Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Katrin Lichterfeld
This commentary attempts to offer a practitioner's perspective on Chan (2019), which looks at how the communication skills of senior managers have changed throughout their careers. The findings of the study suggest that educators in ESP and higher education should prepare future leaders in a more long-term and holistic way so that they can become successful members of the business community. As they
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We agree completely with the reviewer, but … ”: Stance in author rebuttal letters for journal manuscript reviews Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Yuting Lin
Authors’ rebuttal letters (ARLs) in response to journal reviewers critically affect whether a paper is accepted or rejected. However, the genre is traditionally “occluded” from the public view, and its linguistic or rhetorical features are seldom examined in the literature. Using Hyland’s (2005) model, this study analyzes stance markers, i.e., expressions of the speaker’s attitudes towards or commitment
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Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts
As scholarly communication becomes more multimodal in nature, research articles embrace semiotic resources in appended genres such as the graphical abstract (GA). As an established genre in Chemistry research articles, GAs visually remediate chemical processes or research niche. However, this genre still remains in a peripheral area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses as ESP practitioners
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Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Almut Koester
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Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Xixin Qiu, Yuanheng (Arthur) Wang, Edwin Appah Dartey, Minjin Kim
Recent critical inquiries in metadiscourse research call into question the functional inadequacy of a word-based lexical approach. To account more fully the functional affordances of metadiscoursal features in academic writing, this paper examines the Interactional Metadiscourse, namely hedges, boosters, attitude markers and self-mentions based on a 2.64-million-word corpus of L1-English expert and
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Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Thi Van Anh Dang, Penny Haworth, Karen Ashton
While pre-service teachers’ beliefs about different dimensions of English language teaching have been widely researched, little is known about their beliefs related to English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This article reports on three Vietnamese pre-service teachers’ beliefs about ESP teaching, captured over a six-month period. Data from semi-structured interviews, stimulated recall interviews, observations
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Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Wei Wang, Eniko Csomay
Taking Hyland’s (2010) proximity as its conceptual orientation and lexical bundles as its analytical lens, the present study explores the extent to which phraseological configurations in TED talks encode the five facets of proximity. Adopting a corpus-informed discourse analytical approach to lexical bundles (frequently occurring four-word sequences in text), we aim to describe the popularizing features
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When medical eponyms become false friends, and how to deal with them Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó
Medical eponyms can sometimes function as false friends, endangering communication. We demonstrate this by examining a selection of 50 medical phenomena in 8 languages for which eponyms, simple or complex ones, exist. The vast majority of medical eponyms are true friends. However, we have detected several types of false friends. Eponymic false friends in medical terminology may arise through clipping
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Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Haiyang Sun, Xinyuan Mei, Honghui Zhang
Article reviews play a pivotal role in fostering students’ critical evaluation and critical thinking skills. News & Views (N&V) articles published in Nature journals are one prominent example of article reviews and serve as excellent models for students to learn and refine their skills in writing article reviews. However, there is limited research on the rhetorical features of N&V articles, especially
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Development of clausal and phrasal complexity in L2 writing: A case of argumentative essays of Korean college students Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Narae Seo, Sun-Young Oh
This study aims to estimate the developmental trajectory of grammatical complexity for L2 writers by investigating the extent to which clausal and phrasal complexity is associated with L2 writing proficiency. The corpus used in this study contained 234 argumentative essays of first-year Korean college students at three proficiency levels. The five clausal and four phrasal features were extracted from
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A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jincheng Wu, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao, Xiaofei Lu, Tan Jin
Visuals (e.g., figures) are prevalent in academic writing across disciplines, and they are usually accompanied by commentaries that summarize and/or interpret the information they contain. Commentaries on visuals have not yet been studied in terms of their rhetorical and phraseological features, and insights into these features could help novice academic writers integrate such commentaries more effectively
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Tracking the first-year experience in English medium instruction: A pre-post study of transitional challenges Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Ikuya Aizawa
This study explores the changes in perceptions of transitional challenges faced by learners studying Chemistry through English-medium instruction (EMI) at a university in Japan over one academic semester. The research investigates the relationship between students’ English proficiency, academic performance, and their perception of transitional challenges. The study involves 27 students from an introductory
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Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Thomas Hon Tung Chan, Becky Siu Chu Kwan
Despite a long history of citation research, its focus has been on the linguistic and rhetorical characteristics of citations rather than their semantic nature. Using a move-based approach grounded in the CARS model (Swales, 1990), this paper studies the sorts of source ideas cited in different parts of literature reviews (LR) of Information Systems research articles following the design science research
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Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes, Vander Viana, Aisling O’Boyle, Routledge, London, UK; New York, USA (2023), 276 pp., (Hardback), ISBN: 978-1138741317 Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Arefe Amini Faskhodi
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Genre explained: Frequently asked questions and answers about genre-based instruction, Christine M. Tardy, Nigel A. Caplan, Ann M. Johns, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (2023), 150 pp. US$ 24.95, Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-472-03934-0 Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Basim Alamri
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A corpus-based study of vocabulary in massive open online courses (MOOCs) Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Chen-Yu Liu
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide rich academic content to learners around the world. However, understanding such content is challenging to second-language learners. Given the importance of vocabulary knowledge to comprehension, this study constructed a 10.2-million-word corpus of MOOCs from four disciplinary areas (engineering, humanities and arts, science and math, and social sciences)
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The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Youn-hee Kim
The utilisation of Aviation English is paramount in ensuring the safety and efficiency of the aviation industry, and it serves as a preventative measure against incidents and accidents related to communication. This study examines the challenges in radiotelephony communication faced by Korean pilots and air traffic controllers, who are English as a second language (L2) speakers. The study aims to identify
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Becoming a reviewer: Insights from the student and editorial boards of ESPJ Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Averil Coxhead, Jordan Batchelor, Onesmo Mushi, Xixin Qiu, Sunny Hyon
Reviewing is an important task in one's academic career. Learning the skills and gaining practice are often overlooked activities in postgraduate education programmes. English for Specific Purposes instituted a Student Editorial Board (SEB) in 2022 and tasked two new Associate Editors to provide mentorship in reviewing over the course of a year. This paper focuses on the key questions which arose through
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Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Uma Tadema
This commentary attempts to offer a practitioner's perspective on the use of hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations and how it might be explored in a Business English learning environment to help learners with English and negotiating skills. Some textbook materials on negotiations were reviewed for this purpose and some suggested activities are provided.
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Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Chen-Yu Liu
Amid increasing demand for EAP courses, there is a pressing need to identify suitable materials for EAP instruction. This study examines the suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening by exploring the lexical demands, academic vocabulary coverage, lexical density, and speech rates of a corpus of 1,319 such animations covering 12 subject areas. The results show that knowledge of the most
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A practitioner’s commentary on Z. Zhang (2013) Business English students learning to write for international business: What do international business practitioners have to say about their texts? Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Peter Davidson
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Commentary on Rogerson-Revell, P. (2008). Participation and performance in international business meetings. English for Specific Purposes, 27, 338–360 Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Pam Rogerson Revell
This commentary summarises the main findings from my article ‘Participation and performance in international business meetings' (Rogerson-Revell, 2008) and its contribution to research in the field of English as a Business Lingua Franca or BELF. As well as drawing out highlights from the study, it suggests some future directions for further research in this field.
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Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Yunyun Wang, Guangwei Hu
A key feature of scientific writing is the use of shell noun phrases to turn human experiences into abstract entities. This paper reports on a diachronic study of shell noun phrases in 120 chemical engineering research articles over a span of 40 years, focusing on their lexico-grammatical patterns, functional categories and alternative expressions. A corpus-based analysis revealed a significant decline
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Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication, C. Pérez-Llantada, M.J. Luzón, Routledge, New York, NY (2023) Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Sara Nezami Nav
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Toward an empirical understanding of formality: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Tülay Dixon, Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Henrik Kaatari, Elizabeth Hanks
Academic writing is often referred to as “formal,” but the teaching and assessment of formality can be challenging as formality has been conceptualized in many ways. The goal of this study is to explore the elusive construct of formality in the context of academic writing, especially with regard to what formality means to academic writing instructors. We used instructors’ perceptions of formality (i)
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Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Ruiying Yang, Liang Xu, John M. Swales
As the most important journal for ESP research, The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes (ESPJ) is now more than 40 years old, having been launched in 1980. With source data from 705 articles published between 1980 and 2019 in ESPJ, we set out to trace the development of the journal in terms of the most frequently explored topics, the most highly cited ESPJ articles and the references of ESPJ
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Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Aiden Yeh
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A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Dana Poklepovic
Based on the findings of English as a lingua franca in Nordic corporate mergers: Two case companies, speakers in international mergers who use BELF face communication challenges that result from two main sources. The first one is related to the speakers’ performance in English and includes language use and communicative practices. The second source refers to how speakers apply their sets of cultural
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Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Anne Kankaanranta
Inspired by English as a Lingua Franca approach in linguistics, Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005) introduced the notion of BELF (then called Business English Lingua Franca) in their article on internal communication between Finns and Swedes in two Nordic corporate mergers. It was a game changer in its approach to English as a professional tool getting the job done, while empowering internationally operating
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Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 J. Elliott Casal, Jungwan Yoon
This paper analyzes formulaic language in conference abstracts in Applied Linguistics and tracks an application of the findings to a second language English academic writing context. Specifically, the authors identify and profile phrase-frames (a form of discontinuous formulaic sequence) in terms of their frequency, internal variation, predictability, structure, and rhetorical functions in a corpus
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Multi-communication in the new normal Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Vicky Margari
This commentary attempts to offer a practitioner's perspective on what is multicommunication today and how it might be addressed in the classroom to assist in future-proofing the learners' multi-communicating skills.
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Transcending science in scientific communication: Multimodal strategies to incorporate humanistic perspectives in TED talks on biology Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Sichen Xia
When disseminating science to a general audience it is necessary for scientists to refashion the knowledge to meet the audience's expectation that science benefits everyday life rather than just the scientific community. One way to realize this is to transcend the description of scientific inquiry to discuss its implications for the society and humanity. Limited research has been conducted to determine
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Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Julio Gimenez
The study reported in Gimenez's (2014) article investigated multi-communication (MC) practices at four multinationals based in London, UK. Following previous studies, the article defined MC as “the act of holding multiple conversations at the same time” (Gimenez, 2014: 2), expanding the coverage of the term ‘conversation’ to include not only face-to-face but also electronically mediated communication
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Participation in global business meetings revisited Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Oksana Hera
This paper provides an overview of research results by Pamela Rogerson-Revell in ‘Participation and performance in international business meetings’ (2008). The role of English as a lingua franca and the challenges of participants in a specific context of international meetings is briefly described.
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‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Hui Zhou, Feng Kevin Jiang
How limitations are acknowledged and discussed has a profound impact on the extent the research is evaluated and accepted by its intended readers. However, little attention has been drawn to the presentation of limitations in the EAP literature. This study seeks to remedy the oversight by exploring how this discursive practice is mediated by metadiscourse, how limitations are rhetorically contextualized
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Read between the lines: Evaluative patterns and paces in engineering research article introductions Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Jianying Du, Hao Yuan, Qiong Li
Within the appraisal system and the metadiscourse model, we examine engineering writers' evaluative behavior imprinted in research article introductions. Using a combination of in-house script and manual annotation, we explore lexical frequencies, semantic prosodies, and rhetoric constructs in the introductory sections of 100 most cited research articles spreading evenly across ten engineering sub-disciplines
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Podcasts as a resource for learning academic English: A lexical perspective Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Chen-Yu Liu
As the demand for English for academic purposes (EAP) courses increases, efforts are being made to identify pedagogically useful resources for them. Academic podcasts may be helpful for EAP pedagogy, considering their ever-growing stockpile of authentic content covering a wealth of topics from various disciplines that is conveyed in diverse speech formats (e.g., narratives and discussions). Yet, the
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Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Beatrice Zuaro
While lecturers' teaching practices continue to be a focal point of English-medium Instruction (EMI) research, contrastive studies between EMI and L1 lectures remain extremely scarce. The present study addresses this research gap by analyzing five sets of matching L1 and English-medium lectures given in different disciplines at three Italian universities. Each set of lectures is given by the same lecturer
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A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Chinh Ngan Nguyen Le, Julia Miller
Semi-technical vocabulary, a type of vocabulary with both a technical and non-technical meaning (e.g., colon: part of the large intestine; punctuation mark), is an area of controversy owing to disagreement over its definition and characteristics. While it is widely held that learning technical vocabulary is critical for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), several studies have also focused
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“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Aonrumpa Thongphut, Jagdish Kaur
In many highly heterogenous hospitality and tourism (HT) settings around the world, English is used to mediate hospitality service encounters. However, little is known about how front-desk staff are able to effectively communicate with international guests of diverse linguacultural backgrounds to deliver quality service. This study investigates the use of communications strategies by Thai front-desk
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Coloniality and social sciences research: ERPP realities and border thinking in the Arab world Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
This empirical study explores some of the effects of coloniality on social sciences research writing and publishing in the Arab World. The study investigates some aspects of the English for Research Publishing Purposes (ERPP) practices of Arabic-speaking academics who have English as an additional language (EAL) and Native English-speaking (NES) academics who write and publish about issues pertaining
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The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Fatemeh Zolfaghari
Research on negation has generally explored the cross-linguistic similarities and differences of a host of widely spoken languages with little attention to its nuances within academic genres and disciplines. Accordingly, and given the co-articulation of negation with various interpersonal and evaluative resources, this study examined appraisal subsystems in 360 research articles on astrophysics, chemistry
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Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Carolina Girón-García, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
In recent years, science dissemination has moved from printed to digital formats, and digital genres such as free access videos, along with their own multimodal characteristics (e.g. image, audio, movement, among others) are particularly relevant in order to meet 21st century users' (i.e., digital natives) learning needs (Prensky, 2017) and to make them aware of the use of the multimodal traits. However
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Disciplinary and gender-based variations: A frame-based analysis of interest markers in research articles Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Qian Wang, Guangwei Hu
Linguistic expressions of interest as emotive responses are not uncommon in academic discourse but have hardly attracted any research attention. This paper reports on a study designed to examine how the deployment of such expressions in academic writing is mediated by an academic author's disciplinary background and gender. Drawing on a semantic frame developed for interest markers found in a corpus
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Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Xia Liu, Shuangling LI, Wenzhang Fan, Qimeng Dang
Previous lexical bundle research has stimulated heated discussions on disciplinary variations and disciplinary specificity-generality spectrum. The current study explores whether (and how) bundle extraction criteria (i.e. frequency, dispersion, and bundle length) may affect the conclusions on disciplinary variations and specificity-generality. Focusing on eight disciplines, it used an 11-million corpus
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Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Genggeng Zhang
Citation, as an explicit marker of the social nature of the academic discourse, reflects writers' positioning vis-à-vis the cited scholars and anticipated readers and plays a crucial role in the construction and acceptance of claims in a research community. While most studies focused on the forms and functions of citations, few studies explored the authorial stance writers displayed in citations, and
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Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Belkacem Outemzabet, Hanane Sarnou
This paper provides an in-depth and holistic description of the significance of English language use for a community of university hospital professors in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria. The research follows an exploratory qualitative study methodology. The participants included 26 community members who agreed to take part in focus group interviews, in addition to complementary in-depth
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Figure legends of scientific research articles: Rhetorical moves and phrase frames Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Luda Liu, Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Zhongquan Du
Figure legends, descriptive statements accompanying a figure, are short yet important aspects of research articles, but they have almost escaped scrutiny in the literature. Drawing on a corpus of 1,190 figure legends in four science disciplines, this paper explores the structuring of figure legends in terms of rhetorical moves and the typical phrase frames that assist in realizing the communicative
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Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos Engl. Specif. Purp. (IF 2.417) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Sichen Xia
Digital technologies have impacted scientific communication by facilitating developments in forms of expression for scientific genres and contributing to a diversified audience. Recently, a range of digital scientific genres that target not only specialists but also the non-specialist audience have emerged, requiring authors to recontextualize scientific knowledge effectively to meet the needs of a