Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

Togetherness of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been the subject of many recent studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) domain. Few studies, however, have addressed the impact of TBLT on ESP learners’ linguistic production. This study aimed at investigating the impact of task-based teaching on ESP lear...

    Consequential validity, a component of construct validity as a unified concept introduced by Messick(1989), deals with the impacts of tests on teaching, learning, individual test takers, teachers, society, and educational system within a country. Although the impacts of language tests on teaching and learning have been somehow studied, the consequences of ESP tests on individual test taker...

Today, influenced by development of global net and scientific-and-technological advance, pedagogy, as well as any other sciences, is changing being strongly drawn towards information-andcommunication technologies as highly prospective modern teaching aids. The article is to analyze in what way the ICT development modifies the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching under the present-day co...

English for Specific Purposes (ESP), as the bridge curriculum between an ordinary English (EGP) and the English, helps meet the actual needs of students, so it is necessary to introduce ESP into College English teaching. In this paper, based on the needs analysis theory, it studies demand conditions of English for Specific Purposes for non-English majors through questionnaires. The survey finds...

Together with great proliferation of online resources on the one hand and a striking lack of commercially published materials for specific ESP domains on the other, the ESP teacher needs to reflect on using Internet materials judiciously in the language classroom. An indispensable element of the teaching process in any context is effective resourcing, or the ability to find, evaluate and use re...

This paper first defines the 'English for Specific Purposes' (ESP) approach to language teaching in terms of absolute and variable characteristics offered by Dudley-Evans in the plenary speech of the first Japan Conference on English for Specific Purposes. Then, under the headings of teacher, collaborator, course designer and materials provider, researcher, and evaluator proposed by DudleyEvans...