The importance of critical thinking and reading skills in higher education language courses is established frequently explored, particularly with the shift from traditional to more contemporary teaching methods. purpose this study elaborate on implementation practices focus development thinking. Both are considered be essential parts ESP (English for Specific Purposes) EAP Academic syllabi, inc...

The objectives of this research are to know the validity in teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) at nursing university, reliability university. This uses qualitative approach with descriptive statistic method. Then, technique collecting data is analyzing syllabus and questionnaire. researcher means, percentage frequencies validity. findings summarize that ESP has important role STIKes F...

Abstract Using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. The present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the English and Persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 English and 400 Persian headlines published during 12th of June to 13th of July, 2014 was c...

Despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbooks. The acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. Hence, L2 learners of business English should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

Abstract Using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. The present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the English and Persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 English and 400 Persian headlines published during 12th of June to 13th of July, 2014 was c...

The aim of this research is to determine the influence students' English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom anxiety and self-efficacy on their achievement. exploratory, based a quantitative approach systematic non-experimental observation. results show that ESP negatively correlated with anxiety. achievements are positively related self-efficacy, accordingly they some students aware can, whi...