The increasing domination of English as the world's leading medium of international professional communication has begun to impact English for Academic Purposes programs. Specifically, questions arise as to whether English is becoming too successful. This paper reviews several of the resulting ideological challenges to EAP. Although not all of these challenges are accepted as well-founded, the ...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

Medical Linguistics is relatively a quite new field to work with. Working on the language of medicine has stimulating challenges medical practitioners/historians and linguistics. Though lot efforts have been made by classical scholars do linguistic analysis ancient literature very minutely, but then from middle ages until recently was ignored scholars, consequently little done identify towards ...

Various predictive research designs have been used to discover the relationship between learners' aca- demic achievement and the degree of teacher-student interactions they receive individually or in a group and the mediating role of their academic interest in learning. How these relation- ships/correlations work in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting, however, has remained a r...

The massive increase in the use of English Medium Instruction (EMI) universities around world has been accompanied by an ever-growing body publications. majority focus on EMI policies, teacher identities, and teachers’ students’ attitudes towards EMI, whilst there seems to be little research into pedagogical approaches language literacy support for students as well practices education, areas th...

Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses is highly demanding for EAP teachers as they are faced with diverse pedagogical and administrative challenges in such courses. This study addressed the level of burnout among EAP teachers and variations in relation to their demographic and organizational characteristics. To this aim, a demographic questionnaire along with the Persian version ...