The correlation between phrasal complexity and L2 writers’ writing proficiency has been confirmed by numerous studies, among which the empirical studies on measuring of have attracted much attention in English for academic purposes. Based hypothesized developmental indices noun phrase modifications, this study examines, from corpus-driven approach, linguistic realization abstracts written inter...

El uso práctico del enfoque basado en proyectos mediante telecolaboración parece ser un recurso útil el aula de idiomas extranjeros. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la percepción los estudiantes sobre necesidad comunicarse ámbito global siguiendo clasificación las situaciones comunicativas más habituales propuesta por Lehman y DuFrene (2013). Para ello, se realizó experimento en...

Appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices that are available to them when they decide to refer to other texts. A brief review of popular EAP writing textbooks finds, however, that attention is given mainly to surface features of citation, focusing on quotation, summ...

This paper reports on a qualitative study investigating the experience and perspectives of students using English as an international language studying transdisciplinary master’s degrees related to culture industries at Goldsmiths, University of London. The particular focus of this paper concerns their experiences of writing several different genres on their degree programmes, including a categ...

The systematic study of EAP teachers’ pedagogic content knowledge and their actual teaching practices in class is a fresh avenue in applied linguistics, especially in contexts like Iran, where, EAP courses are taught by two groups of teachers with different specializations; i.e., language teachers and content teachers. This study explored the similarities and differences between language teache...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...