Although the course of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is increasingly popular in China, ESP courses today are no more than teaching specific words and phrases and translating texts following the traditional grammar-translation method. With China’s active participation in the international affairs, more importance is expected to be attached to the design of ESP courses that can be facilitat...

This article aims to investigate and analyze the perceived English language needs of engineers who want to develop their job position through English Language in their workplaces such as public relations, technical and operational, engineering support of production, planning and development, financial, general accounting, and legal affairs. In today’s competitive world, the economy needs more p...

In a digital era, utilizing techonology as learning media is important things. As mentioned earlier, there are several applications to improve students' speaking skill, one of them cake application. Speaking the most skills in English and skill practiced how pronounce words properly correctly. The purpose this research know use application an improvement students’ for Specific Purposes (ESP). p...

This paper comes out of concern about instructional principles of developing English for Specific Purposes (ESP) materials in China. It points out the major problems of ESP material development in China: incapability to write ESP materials; selection of materials; imbalance between carrier content and real content; imbalance in language skills development. To solve these problems, it is suggest...

This paper explores sub-disciplinary variations and generic structure of research article introductions (RAIs) within three sub-disciplines of applied linguistics (AL); namely, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics, using Swales’(1990) CARS model. The corpus consisted of 90 RAIs drawn from a wide range of refereed journals in the corresponding sub-discipli...

The aim of this paper is to show how we managed make a rapid switch from the on-site classes online ones because COVID-19 pandemic in context teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP – Medical English) at “Grigore T. Popa” University Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania. major issues were keep our students’ interest classes, making courses seminars as engaging possible. most important ideas t...