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The Role of Women in Business English Textbooks (1970s-2010s) ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 María Vázquez-Amador,M. Carmen Lario-de-Oñate
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Self-Denigration in Doctoral Defense Sessions: Scale Development and Validation ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Nadia Mayahi,Alireza Jalilifar
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Modal Density in Structuring Segments Containing Organizational Metadiscourse Versus Content Sequences ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Edgar Bernad-Mechó
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Treatment of Term Variants as Equivalents in Legal Translation Dictionaries ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sandro Nielsen
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Project-Based Translation of Wikipedia Articles in a Tertiary ESP Context: Planning, Execution and Lessons Learnt ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jelena Anđelković,Marija Meršnik,Jovana Jović
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Improving Oral Production Skills in the Business English Class Through Creative Dubbing ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 José Javier Ávila-Cabrera
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Investigating Student Motivation in the Use of Corpus Concordancing in ESP Learning at University Level ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Vassilis Argyroulis
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Constructing an Argument in Academic Writing Across Disciplines ESP Today Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Milada Walková,Jody Bradford
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A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Collocational Behavior of the Nouns Deformity and Malformation in Medical English ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Gorica Tomić
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Uncovering the Principles Behind EAP Programme Design: Do We Do What We Say We’re Going to Do? ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Angela Hulme
English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) programmes are highly valued in higher education as they provide students with knowledge and understanding of the cultures, literacies, discourse and practices of their academic communities. This article examines an ESAP, pre-sessional programme for Masters students developed by the Language Centre at The University of Leeds, UK. Its aim was to deliver
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“We Are Strong Believers in the Power of the Avon Brand”: Genre Features of International Cosmetics Companies’ E-Releases ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Tatyana Yakhontova,Oryslava Ivantsiv
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Metaphorical Concepts and Their Cognitive Functions in Medical Discourse: Research Papers vs. Press Articles ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
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OET vs IELTS: Finding the Most Appropriate Way to Test Language Skills for Medicine ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Andrea Carr
The question of whether someone is ‘proficient’ in a language or not can be difficult to measure. The problems that surround language testing are well researched and the suitability of tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) has been studied extensively. How well studying for tests such as IELTS equips learners with language needed for the world of work is, however,
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The Impact of Using International Medical Students in Role-Plays on Improving Hungarian Medical Students’ English Language Competence ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Gabriella Hild,Timea Németh,Alexandra Csongor
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Communication for Medicine: State-of-the-Art ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 John Skelton,Catherine Richards
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Iranian EAP Practitioners’ Competences, Practices, and Professional Development ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Shiva Kaivanpanah,Sayyed Mohammad Alavi,Ian Bruce,S. Yahya Hejazi
Given the importance of teaching methodology in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and professional development (PD) for EAP teachers, this survey examined and explored the differences of the self-adjudged perceptions of EAP practice competences and PD activities of two main groups of Iranian teachers: those with an English language teaching (ELT) background and subject content teachers who teach
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A Comparative Analysis of Collocations in UK and Croatian Company Law ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Snježana Husinec,Irena Horvatić Bilić
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Translating the English Constitutional Discourse into Spanish: The Case of an Illegal Prorogation of Parliament ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 María Ángeles Orts
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Case Reports in Dental Medicine: A Genre Analysis ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Stevan Mijomanović,Irena Aleksić-Hajduković,Danka Sinadinović
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The Clinical Case Presentation as a Narrative: Form and Practice ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Michael Guest
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The Becoming of a Medical Professional: Integrating Humanities-Based Resources in a Medical English Course ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Theodora Tseligka,Kätlin Koik
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Glogging in the ESP Classroom: Developing Tourism Studies Students’ EFL Persuasive Writing ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Marwa Said Mustafa El-Garawany
Tourism discourse is highly persuasive. To succeed in their future careers, university students majoring in Tourism Studies should therefore be able to write persuasively in English. This study investigated the effect of glogging on developing EFL persuasive writing in such learners. Participants (N = 16) were second-year students in the Tourism Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University
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Nurses Presenting in English: Needs and Requirements in the Spanish University ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido,María Pilar Molés Julio
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Genre Analysis in the Digital Era: Developments and Challenges ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sichen Ada Xia
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Triangulating Diamond Talk: Identifying Technical Spoken Vocabulary in English for Baseball Purposes ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Philip S. Riccobono
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The Impact of Brexit on Tourism as Released by the Press: A Corpus-Driven Lexical Analysis ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Camino Rea Rizzo
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The Simplification of Jury Instructions: Legal-Lay Interactions in Jury Trials ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Olga Boginskaya
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The Modal Expression of Necessity in English for Tourism ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Aleksandra Radovanović
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Comparing Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses in the Letter to Shareholders: The Case of British and Spanish Banks ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ruth Breeze,Ana M. Fernández Vallejo
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Topic Signaling Metadiscourse Devices in the Tunisian Lecture Corpus ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Basma Bouziri
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Writing Research Questions and Hypotheses: A Genre-Based Investigation into Writers’ Linguistic Resources in Social Sciences ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Jason Miin-Hwa Lim,Xianqing Luo
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A Blended Scientific Communication Course for Undergraduate Students: Addressing the Challenges Posed by the Covid-19 Pandemic ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sujata S. Kathpalia,See Eng Kiat,Kristina Marie Tom
In institutions of higher education, there seems to be a growing interest in blended learning courses, particularly at present to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic Although a multitude of studies are available on converting content courses to blended courses, very few studies focus on incorporating online learning into English for Specific Academic Purposes courses This study describes
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Leveraging Professional Wordlists for Productive Vocabulary Knowledge ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Reka R. Jablonkai
Productive knowledge of subject-specific vocabulary is essential for successful professional communication. This article puts forward the case for an innovative approach to course and materials design in English for Professional Purposes (EPP) that highlights the importance of careful analysis of the vocabulary of specific professional discourse. It argues that EPP courses would benefit from being
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Negotiating Theoretical Implication in Management Research Article Discussions ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Fei-Wen Cheng
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The Impact of Editing on Metadiscourse in Dentistry Research Articles Written by Non-Native English Speakers ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Assef Khalili,Simin Sattarpour
Non-native English speaking (NNES) authors are increasingly being pressured to get published in accredited international journals. Despite the important responsibility that editors shoulder in deciding the ultimate fate of academic papers, few studies have systematically explored the effects editing might have on specific writing features, whether linguistically or stylistically. That is what we set
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Exploring the Unexpected in Legal Discourse: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and British Judgments on Immigration ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 María José Marín Pérez
In spite of being popularly regarded as examples of objectivity, two collections of Spanish and British judicial decisions related to the search terms migration, immigration and their Spanish equivalents were examined in search for evidence of the use of evaluative vocabulary, which appears to be considerably significant judging by the amount of such lexical items found in both corpora. This research
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The Influence of TED Talks on ESP Undergraduate Students’ L2 Motivational Self System in the Speaking Skill: A Mixed-Method Study ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Aránzazu García-Pinar
Over the past ten years, research on L2 motivation has been extensively influenced by Dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) motivational paradigm, the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). A fundamental aspect of Dörnyei’s Motivational Self System are images. Their stimulatory character means that students who possess a more detailed ideal self are more likely to engage in the process of learning a second language
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Research Article Acknowledgements Across Disciplines: Patterns of Scholarly Communication and Tradition ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Gabrielė Guščytė, Jolanta Šinkūnienė
In this paper we analyse the generic structure of acknowledgements in four disciplines: Biology, Robotics, Education, and Art history. The study is based on a self-compiled corpus of acknowledgements and employs the rhetorical move/step structure analysis to investigate disciplinary trends of expressing gratitude in research articles. The results show that in hard sciences acknowledgements are more
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Directions for the Future: A Genre-Based Investigation into Recommendations for Further Research and Practical Applications in Forestry ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Renu Joseph, Jason Miin-Hwa Lim
Writers incorporate recommendations in the Discussion sections of research articles to indicate how their findings can lead to interesting avenues for further research and useful applications in real life, but it is not clear how such recommendations are positioned and realised using different language resources in their attempt to get their papers published. Based on a genre-based move analysis of
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The Strategy Inventory for Second Language Learning: Tested, Adapted, and Validated in the Slovenian Higher Education Context ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Manica Danko, Mitja Dečman
In administering the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) survey, our research focused on the use of second language learning strategies (SLLS) among higher education students, ascertaining what SLLS they use, the relationships between the strategies, and how the use of one group of SLLS can explain the use of other groups of strategies. This study examined the validity of the SILL (Oxford
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Non-Language Majors’ Study Abroad Language Learning Experiences Captured in a Narrative Frame ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sanja Marinov, Višnja Pavičić Takač
Study abroad (SA) research involving Croatian students is still in its infancy, with hardly any documentation of systematic research. Thus, the present paper aims to explore the main themes permeating Croatian sojourners’ SA experiences and their interrelatedness. The study utilises narrative frames (NFs), i.e. story templates that produce a coherent account of an individual’s own experience (Barkhuizen
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Teaching Test-Taking Strategies to EFL Student Readers with Different Language Proficiencies: An Empirical Reassessment ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jia-Ying Lee
This study investigated the effect of teaching test-taking strategies to EFL student readers with different levels of reading proficiency (i.e. high and low). Two groups of undergraduate non-English majors joined an eight-week experiment. One served as the treatment group (TG) which learned test-taking strategies to tackle English reading test tasks, while the control group (CG) received no strategy
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What Do Major Stakeholders Really Think? Business English Students’ Perceptions About Problem-Based Learning ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Andreea Rosca
The present study emerged from the need to give more visibility to business disciplines in connection with problem-based learning (PBL) and to give voice to students, who may be regarded as the major stakeholders in a PBL project. This article examines students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the implementation of a PBL project in the subject of Business English. We analyze the results obtained
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Bipolar Synergies: The Role of Diachronic and Synchronic Study of Words in Content Comprehension at Tertiary Level ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Uma Maheswari Viswanathan, A. Shahin Sultana, Suhasini Shankar
The present study was conducted to investigate the use of etymology and semantic grouping as cognitive vocabulary learning strategies in professional colleges like engineering colleges to enhance the L2 learners’ reading comprehension of academic texts. Despite a plethora of research in ESP, specific vocabulary learning strategies in relation to multilingual student population elude ESP practitioners
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The Effect of Repetition on Incidental Legal Vocabulary Learning Through Long-Term Exposure to Authentic Videos ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ekaterina Sinyashina
This study intends to identify the minimal number of repetitions needed for successful incidental learning of legal vocabulary after watching authentic videos as a leisure time activity. It also examines the effectiveness of long-term exposure to authentic videos for incidental learning of legal vocabulary. For this purpose, the participants were distributed between two groups: the incidental and the
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“It Seems Plausible to Maintain that…”: Clusters of Epistemic Stance Expressions in Written Academic Elf Texts ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Irina Shchemeleva
Nowadays, when English has firmly established itself as a lingua franca (ELF) in academic settings, it is very important to study the features of texts written by L2 speakers who come from a variety of cultural and L1 backgrounds and who use ELF in their academic communication. The present study focuses on clusters of epistemic stance expressions used in research articles in social sciences and humanities
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The Impact of Online Technologies and English Medium Instruction on University Lectures in International Learning Contexts: A Systematic Review ESP Today Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Mercedes Querol-Julián, Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli
This paper addresses how the university lecture is evolving in response to new realities in international higher education driven by two important trends: innovative online instructional technologies and the rise of English Medium Instruction (EMI). Following a brief review of the lecture as the core instructional channel in universities, we offer a detailed overview of the new technology-driven lecture
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Face Validity In ESP: A Quantitative Student Validation of an Engineering ESP Approach ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Joseph Moyo,Charles C. Mann
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Remediating Corporate Communication Through the Web: The Case of “About US” Sections In Companies’ Global Websites ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Emanuela Tenca
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Changing Communicative Purposes of Academic Journal Writing in Transition to Multimodality ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jianxin Liu, Jebunnesa Jeba
The past decade has seen growing influence of multimodality over writing for academic journals, as well as an overall lack of research attention. In our analysis reported in this paper, we position academic journals as a text space where genres such as research articles are accommodated. We focus our analysis on examining communicative purposes of academic journal writing, a defining feature of genre
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The Discursive Hierarchical Patterning in Accounting Cases ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jane Lung
This study examines the genre of accounting cases in academic contexts. It is an attempt to extend Lung’s (2008) model of discursive hierarchical patterning of case analysis to a study of accounting cases and to propose a model of discursive hierarchical patterning of cases in Accounting. It examines (1) the kind of information the generic moves in accounting cases call for; (2) how these moves are
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ESP, EMI and Interculturality: How Internationalised Are University Curricula in Catalonia? ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Elisabet Arnó-Macià, Marta Aguilar
This study analyses Internationalisation at Home (IaH) courses across a wide range of bachelor’s degrees, from humanities to hard sciences, in public universities in Catalonia, as an in-depth analysis of a South European context. IaH courses selected for analysis included courses (i) on international topics, (ii) taught in English and focusing on content (English-medium Instruction, EMI) and (iii)
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Integrating Intercultural Competence in ESP and EMI: From Theory to Practice ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Marta Aguilar
As internationalisation policies like English - medium Instruction (EMI) are increasingly implemented in European higher education, EMI and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classrooms become small international spaces where local students’ intercultural skil ls can be developed. I suggest that the internationalised higher education poses challenges also to non - mobile students, who find themselves
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The Textual Expression of Critical Thinking in PhD Discussions in Applied Linguistics ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Ian Bruce
The purpose of this study was to identify the textual resources used to express critical thinking in the Discussion chapters or chapter sections of PhD theses from the discipline of Applied Linguistics. Five Discussions were manually analysed using the social genre/cognitive genre model of the author (Bruce, 2008a) as the analytical framework. Three generic elements, used integratively, were found
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Mobile and Multidimensional: Flipping the Business English Classroom ESP Today Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Catherine Nickerson
An increasing number of researchers and practitioners with an interest in ESP have begun to consider the role that information communication technologies can play in the classroom. In addition, recent work in English for Specific Business Purposes has emphasized the importance of introducing more computer-mediated communication into the curriculum, in an effort to help learners to develop the skills
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Discipline-Specific Writing at University, for ESP and Beyond ESP Today Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Margaret Cargill
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Editorial: Current Research and Practice in Teaching Disciplinary Literacies ESP Today Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Zuocheng Zhang,Eveline Chan
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Tell for Specialized Domains: A Closer Look into Theory and Practice ESP Today Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Nataša Milivojević,Stanka Radojičić
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Disciplinary Literacy in English as a Foreign Language in Biotechnology Engineering ESP Today Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Milevica Bojović
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Bridging the Gap Between the Real Business World and the Business English Classroom ESP Today Pub Date : 2017-01-01 María Vázquez-Amador