EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which is a branch of English for specific purposes (ESP), focuses instruction on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas. For Chinese graduates whose mother tongue is not English, EAP teaching consists of four parts, which are academic listening, academic reading, academic listening and academic writing. T...

While it is increasingly recognized that teachers have a crucial role to play in motivating learners, language teacher cognition research focuses on beliefs about second (L2) learner motivation and motivational practices still rare, particularly English for specific purposes (ESP) settings Asia. Furthermore, much of what available does not employ stimulated recall interviews facilitate comparis...

The possibility of compiling electronic corpora, as the second half last cen­tury, has provided new opportunities for vocabulary research. This also resulted in devel­op­ment a series computer software solutions lexical analysis texts and building lists language learners. In this article, differences tech­nical vocabu­lary according to their frequency keyness corpora English Specific Purposes (...

english for academic purposes (eap) is a significant part of the curriculum in iranian universities. however, it seems that eap programs have been developed without a systematic needs analysis. the purpose of this study was assessing the present and target situation needs of two groups of undergraduates of computer science. a total of 320 students and 44 instructors participated in this triangu...

Due to the importance of digital multimodal composing (DMC) in current educational context, researchers this study implemented infographic tasks an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course at a Vietnamese university and examined EFL students’ perceptions on individual collaborative infographics using Visme. The responses open-ended questions suggested that Visme is convenient suitable tool wh...

The web application "English at a Click", presented in this paper is used for learning specialized English. can be integrated into part of larger distance system, as supplement to traditional or an independent application. current version the implemented basic goal show different contexts which English word used, helps user choose most appropriate term when translating text from Serbian languag...