Showing papers in "English for Specific Purposes in 2002"

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of research article introductions from two related fields, wildlife behavior and conservation biology, using Swales' create-a-research-space (CARS) model was performed.

TL;DR: The authors argue that ESP must involve teaching the literacy skills which are appropriate to the purposes and understandings of particular academic and professional communities, and advocate the need to reaffirm our commitment to research-based language education.

TL;DR: The authors explored the extent to which published advice on the organisation and structure of theses and dissertations concurs with what happens in actual practice, and found a wider range of thesis types than the guides and handbooks would suggest occurs.

TL;DR: The authors explored one grammatical feature of metadiscourse, clauses with an anticipatory it and extraposed subject (as in ‘It is interesting to note that no solution is offered’), and found that it-clauses have four main interpersonal roles in hedging, marking the writer's attitude, emphasis, and attribution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the development and assessment of oral communication skills in an undergraduate business and commerce curriculum and argue that undergraduate experience in formal presentation only is inadequate preparation for oral communication in the workplace.

TL;DR: The course speaking and listening in a health care setting was developed to respond to what was identified as students' area of greatest difficulty: communicating with clients and colleagues in the clinical setting as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of visual communication in a spoken research genre, the scientific conference paper, is investigated, where the visual channel reveals a wide range of meaning-making strategies which are exploited to structure the discourse and express logical relations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the findings of a survey on Genre Analysis of 117 commercial letters in English exchanged by fax between a Brazilian company and two European companies, which together contribute to the building up of the resulting generic structure named as Business Letters of Negotiation (LN).

TL;DR: In this paper, a Finnish Business Manager who works in a multinational corporation was observed for one day and most of the discourse activities during the day were tape-recorded, and copies were taken of the written materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, an actual classroom implementation of strategy and self-regulation instruction was carried out to find out whether instruction would help students to plan and revise their essays and if students had the competence and ability to regulate their writing, would it improve their attribution, selfefficacy and selfdetermination.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of legal writing books in terms of their suitability for use in EALP writing contexts is presented, and three approaches are then offered for developing legal writing materials that will meet the criteria of suitability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted for an ESP program in a Civil Aviation School in Turkey where students were in training to become pilots and air traffic controllers and the results indicated that even in such a restricted and globally monitored language as Airspeak, local variations exist in the use of greetings, the pronunciation of numbers, and the extended use of Turkish.

TL;DR: This paper explored patterns of discourse organisation in seminar-type discussions and found that students negotiate meaning and co-construct discourse and the type of interlocutor behaviour underlying this can be used to complement conventional language description of discussion for EAP.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper explored the frequency and use of adjectives in five advanced scientific texts on biochemistry and analyzed the semantic implications of the observed occurrence of these adjectives, and suggested how to guide students to read and write research articles efficiently.

TL;DR: In this article, an approach to teaching first-year law students how to write the academic genre of the legal problem answer is described, and the authors highlight the importance of balanced argument in legal discourse, and show how the rhetorical elements of concession, contingency and end-focus can serve to help students distil persuasive, pertinent and economical problem answers.

TL;DR: This article investigated variation in knowledge construction in three disciplines (sociology, economics and physics) by drawing on Halliday's notion of metaphenomenon and found that economics textbook discourse is arguably more akin to that of physics than its social science counterpart, sociology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a specific need to explore critical information processing skills of the World Wide Web (WWW) as part of an English for Academic Purposes teaching and learning context.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between use of the rhetorical organization that a text employs and comprehension and the reproduction of information of the text on the other hand, and found that it is only when reproduction and conscious recognition coincide in the reader, that the structure has a positive effect on reading comprehension and reproduction of the information presented in a text.

TL;DR: In this paper, the case discussion leadership in two English-medium strategic management courses in Hong Kong was investigated to better understand the learning situation from their perspectives by means of a typology of questions, the case leaders' questions and student responses in The China strategy: a tale of two firms case discussions.