Showing papers in "English for Specific Purposes in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, an effort by researchers of an engineering-based university in the East Coast Region of Malaysia to collect information on the important communication skills and communicative events frequently faced and utilized by engineers has assisted in the design of an English communication syllabus and module for engineering students.

TL;DR: The English as an academic lingua franca (ELFA) corpus as discussed by the authors ) is a corpus of spoken academic discourse from the University of Helsinki, which is used for ESP descriptive studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a research project focusing on everyday English lingua franca communication at work and find that knowledge of specific business context, the particular genres used in the particular business area, and overall business communication strategies are tightly intertwined with proficiency in English, which impacts upon teaching.

TL;DR: This paper examined the importance of networks and tracked how scholars gain access to and participate in them, concluding that strong, local, durable networks are crucial to enabling scholars' participation in transnational networks, which support their publishing in both English and local languages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the respective roles of linguistic and contextual analysis in genre analysis, if the results are to be of maximum use in ESP course design, and suggest how language trainers can focus on particular sections of the audit report in order to help auditors write better.

TL;DR: The most frequent types of comments made by peer reviewers to identify the most frequent linguistic problems that Italian researchers encounter in this process were mainly in the area of scientific and methodological content, followed by lexical and grammatical errors, clarity and verbosity or repetition as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of written and spoken English vis-a-vis written Chinese, Cantonese and Putonghua in the four key service industries that have driven Hong Kong's economy in the past decade.

TL;DR: The authors quantifies differences in speaking rates in first and second language, and examines the effects of slower rates on the speakers' abilities to convey information, finding that the slower rate of speech significantly reduced the information content of the presentations when speaking time was held constant.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated the selection of metaphors in a published business English textbook using findings from a specialised corpus of written business English and found that only a slight overlap between the textbook metaphors and the metaphors from the corpus sample, ranging from two to three items depending on the source domain examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed account of an analysis carried out at the French National Skiing and Mountaineering School from August 2008 to June 2009 to assess the language needs of French mountain guides is given.

TL;DR: This paper explored the structures and functions of lexical bundles in English EU texts, and drew conclusions regarding their relevance for language courses on English for EU purposes by investigating the most frequent word combinations in English documents issued by EU institutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue the need for business communication textbooks to narrow the gap between the classroom and the workplace, and discuss ways in which more authentic collaborative activities can be set up in the classroom.

TL;DR: In this article, a pre-departure lecture comprehension course was developed and piloted in response to the problem of Italian business students who participate in Erasmus exchanges in English-medium universities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of English in advertisements from Polish glossy magazines on their audience, young educated Polish women, and found that the use of English did not bring about a significant difference in purchasing intentions, and led to only few statistically significant differences in comprehension.

TL;DR: This article examined the applicability of the construct transfer climate in EAP education and found that students can perceive a lack of support for learning transfer and pointed to specific features of the mainstream academic setting that contributed to these perceptions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analysed the verbal and non-verbal aspects in context, based on 13 video recordings of simulated negotiations involving 51 students from 16 nationalities (total negotiating time 3hh 46min) seven negotiations were carried out in an exam situation and six as coursework.

TL;DR: This paper investigated spoken directive language use in office hour consultation contexts by international teaching assistants (ITAs) in training, individually and in comparison with practicing academic professionals, and found that the ITA group makes fewer uses of both independence and inclusion appeals than the practicing academics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the design and implementation of a business proposal module for final-year science students at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong, which adopts the case-study approach which is advocated in the literature on EOP as it mirrors the activities and practices of real-life business situation.

TL;DR: This paper conducted an interview-based study of the beliefs, practices, and experiences of 16 proofreaders of student writing at undergraduate and/or graduate level in a university setting, focusing on the ethical concerns informants associate with the proofreading act.

TL;DR: In this article, a response to Holmes and Celani's (2006) invitation to learn from the Brazilian ESP experience is presented, which discusses the conditions which sustained this experience, and compares the Brazilian situation to the Tunisian one.