humanism and socio-constructivism have entailed drastic developments in education including that of foreign/second language. incorporating teachers and learners in all areas of education including materials development and evaluation, focusing four-pairs of binoculars on evaluating efl materials can be taken amongst the outcomes of this trend.  this study is a report of an evaluation of the esp...

The Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) in Computer Science is a Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL) approach to bringing undergraduates new to the discipline together with peer mentors to work on computational problems, and to expose them to the broad array of disciplines within computer science. This program demonstrates that computer science is necessarily a collaborative activity that focuses more on...

abstractthe present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of esp instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional esp teachers. the main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of esp teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach esp. to find the answer, a questionnaire was ...

This study is an attempt to evaluate certain areas of the Iranian ESP program through the lens of its immediate stakeholders, i.e. policy implementers, authors, teachers and learners. Using questionnaires, interviews and classroom observations through a quantitative-qualitative mixed-method design, the collected data were analyzed. The results of the study indicate that the program is suffering...

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, ...

This paper describes the rationale, background, and current implementation of the Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering English program that has been continually developed at the Center for English Language Education (CELESE) since 2004. First, I will explain the language challenges facing Japanese scientists and engineers that led to the creation of the program. I will then deta...

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, 2013). T...

In this article we will try to show the impact of widespread deployment of a driver assistance systems called: Electronic Stability Program ESP on the data of road accidents in Morocco. We will indicate the state of road safety in Morocco, then the reasons for which the choice of deploying ESP is a convenient choice in Morocco. As a result, we will conclude by evaluating the predictable impact ...