Abstract Though foreign language anxiety (FLA) has long been recognized as an important affective factor in second learning, its impact is worth studying new educational contexts of emergency remote teaching response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The present study examines key factors behind FLA online English for Specific Purposes (ESP). research was conducted among a sample 171 first-year undergr...

Creative Writing (CW) is an important skill that helps students achieve progress in learning English as a Foreign Language (FL). It also them improve fluency, motivation, confidence, and creativity. However, most for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses focus on technical English, CW under-utilized to practise. As result, this study examines university students’ perceptions of ESP the process enhanc...

International tourism and its related businesses have considerably increased recently. Due to this expansion, tourism employees must be able to communicate appropriately, and effective ESP programs need to be administered accordingly. Many studies have been conducted on current ESP courses for tourism; however, major problems still remain in designing ESP courses to satisfy L2 learners’ needs, ...

This paper reviews the literature on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research in 15 CSSCI foreign language journals China’s CNKI database over last two decades. The data have been quantified and visualized with Citespace. analyzes advances themes, then puts forward suggestions based current situation of college teaching China. findings reveal that: 1) ESP publications shown a risi...

Few would dispute the need for students of scientific disciplines to learn English. The teaching of English to scientists whose first language is not English is essentially utilitarian. The learners need English as a means of doing their work efficiently and of furthering their specialist education, and the language is not taught with a general educational aim in mind, as a cultural or social e...

There is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. A number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of ESP courses in Iran (Atai, 2002; Eslami, 2005; Hayati, 2008; Ahmadi, 2008; Sherkatolabbasi & Mahdavi, 2012; Boniadi, Ghojazadeh & Rahmatvand, 2013). T...

The presented study reveals the theoretical prerequisites for expediency of applying personally oriented and pragmatic approaches to integrated learning English special purposes, in particular, when studying learner needs future journalists. necessity explore specific field professionally communication (POEC) journalists is determined by requirement adapt language policy higher education instit...