This paper reviews the literature on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research in 15 CSSCI foreign language journals China’s CNKI database over last two decades. The data have been quantified and visualized with Citespace. analyzes advances themes, then puts forward suggestions based current situation of college teaching China. findings reveal that: 1) ESP publications shown a risi...

Introduction. English for Specific Purposes focuses on teaching and learning subject specific knowledge which includes language skills that particular learners need a purpose. Self-efficacy is determined by subjective beliefs about one?s own abilities, also applies to the academic setting of studying Purposes. Academic self-efficacy represents conviction students their abilities successfully fu...

Recent studies in academic discourse show that rhetorical choices in student academic writing differ across disciplines. Focusing on the introductions of examination essays, the present study examines the rhetorical choices made by second-year undergraduates in Literature-in-English and Sociology courses in a Ghanaian state university. A combined framework comprising Swales‟ rhetorical move app...

This study aimed to investigate the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary variations of research article Introduction sections in 2 disciplines (i.e., humanities and basic sciences). Ninety research article Introduction sections (i.e., 15 from each discipline of applied linguistics, sociology, psychology, biology, agriculture, and geology) were examined. The study was conducted with reference to ...

In a scholarly convention, ESP has bilaterally focused on “academic” and “occupational” arenas leaving the symbiosis between the two almost untouched. The present study, thus, aims to weigh the concordance between what is taught in universities as EAP courses for B.A. students in Business and Economics and what English skills and abilities are, actually, required from them on the job. A...