Analysis Using Web Tools Tomofumi NAKANO and Yukie KOYAMA Nagoya Institute of Technology Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 Japan {nakano, koyama}@center.nitech.ac.jp Abstract. This study includes an original corpus of engineering journals and is part of the series of E-Learning & English for Specific Purposes (ESP) researches . Purposes (ESP) researches that includes an original corpus of e...

despite the body of research on textbook evaluation from the discourse analysis perspective, cohesive devices have rarely been analyzed in english for specific purposes (esp) textbooks. the acquisition and use of cohesive devices is inherent to naturalistic communication, including business interactions. hence, l2 learners of business english should be exposed to these devices through cohesion-...

abstract using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. the present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the english and persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 fifa world cup. toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 english and 400 persian headlines published during 12th of june to 13th of july, 2014 was c...

Background: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. However, at many Iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the Grammar Translation Method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. The present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching English to Medical students that ca...