action research is an attempt to seek immediate solutions to the problems experienced in educational settings. in this type of research, teachers are the researchers who intend to make instant reforms to develop, and improve their teaching styles and reflect on pedagogical practices. the purpose of this study was to conduct an action research to tackle the problem of students' low motivation in...

This study analyzes the needs of pharmacy students in a private university for English Specific Purposes (ESP) Indonesia. The data were gathered through semi-structural interviews based on determining themes with eight selected who completed course, lecturer specific purposes, and supported by document analysis ESP syllabus department. Data was conducted interactive collection, reduction, prese...

In the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), as in any other type interlanguage, phraseology contributes significantly to successful academic writing (Biber and Barbieri 2007). For particular learner varieties, such Romanian English, few studies have examined formulaic sequences (Hyland 2008), mainly focusing on lexico-grammatical patterns (Chitez 2012, 2014). The proposed paper investi...

background: there are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of esp; one using specialized english texts, and the other with general english texts. purpose: to determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods.     methods: in the regular         competency for academic purposes.

international tourism and its related businesses have considerably increased recently. due to this expansion, tourism employees must be able to communicate appropriately, and effective esp programs need to be administered accordingly. many studies have been conducted on current esp courses for tourism; however, major problems still remain in designing esp courses to satisfy l2 learners’ needs, ...

Information and communication technology (ICT) developments have completely changed how education is delivered. The lecturers especially English for Specific Purposes been encouraged to use websites such as YouTube promote better best learning among the ‘Net Generation’ students. an option media teaching listening of ESP. purposes this study are explain benefits in ESP classes based on lecturer...

there is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. a number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of esp courses in iran (atai, 2002; eslami, 2005; hayati, 2008; ahmadi, 2008; sherkatolabbasi & mahdavi, 2012; boniadi, ghojazadeh & rahmatvand, ...