This paper presents and describes an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course designed second year forestry students using the principles of Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Starting with a theoretical overview what CLIL stands for, discussion continues presentation ESP aimed at efficient acquisition target language content knowledge represented by specialized terminology. Example...

Determinations of steroid receptors have been used to predict steroid sensitivity in various neoplastic tumors. It appears, however, that simple steroid binding measure ments are not sufficient for that purpose in lymphoid tumors. This conclusion is based on a literature survey showing, first, that numerous factors are capable of mod ulating cellular steroid receptor content; second, that the r...

Rules, regulations and policy statements quite frequently contain nested sequences of normative modalities as in, for example: • The database manager is obliged to permit the deputy-manager to authorise access for senior departmental staff. • Parking on highways ought to be forbidden. Marcus (1966) Accordingly, a knowledge-representation language for such sentences must be able to accommodate n...

Critical to survival, and also to the organism's efficient management of the flow of information in the brain, is attentional selectivity; the ability to select one source of information to guide action whilst ignoring others that are irrelevant to the current behavioural goal. But such selectivity is not merely the inclusion of the relevant information and the complete neglect of irrelevant in...