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Needs analysis for academic legal English courses in Israel: a model of setting priorities
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In this paper, the needs analysis of Israeli law students demonstrates the multifaceted factors involved in determining the needs of Israeli students studying English as a foreign language, including global ones stemming from both the historical and present indebtedness of Israel law to English law and the common law system, and individual ones which include both short term and long term needs.About:
This article is published in Journal of English for Academic Purposes.The article was published on 2003-01-01. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Israeli law & Needs analysis.read more
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Developing a profile of the ESP needs of Iranian students: The case of students of nursing and midwifery
Golnar Mazdayasna,M.H. Tahririan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate medical sciences students studying in faculties of nursing and midwifery in Iran and find that over one-third of the students expressed their dissatisfaction with the number of students in each class, with the teaching methodology used, the method of evaluation, and the amount of foreign culture taught in the class and content of the textbook.
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Teachers’ Voice vs. Students’ Voice: A Needs Analysis Approach of English for Acadmic Purposes (EAP) in Iran
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the perception that EAP students and instructors have of the problematic areas in EAP programs, and the results show discrepancy between the perceptions of EAP learners in different academic fields and between learners and instructors.
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Is What I Need What I Want? Reconceptualising College Students' Needs in English Courses for General and Specific/Academic Purposes.
TL;DR: The results showed that students had different perceptions of necessities, wants, and lacks in the different language skills taught in EGP and ESP/EAP courses, and demonstrated discrepancies between the students’ perceptions of needs and the actual courses they took.
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A Curricular Framework for English for Academic Legal Purposes
TL;DR: The curricular framework for EALP draws legal English from the periphery to the center of law school education by accentuating the legal linguistic skills needed both in academia and in legal practice by synthesizing theoretical principles and skills clusters.
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A Needs Analysis Approach to ESP Design in Iranian Context
TL;DR: Aliakbari and Boghayari as mentioned in this paper investigated the needs and views of architecture students and graduates, and the effectiveness of their ESP courses, and found that reading comprehension skill, followed by writing, speaking, and listening were respectively the important skills identified by the participants.
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Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
TL;DR: The authors provides a survey of approaches to various genres of language, and considers these in relation to communication and task-based language learning, as well as examples of different genres and how they can be made accessible through genre analysis.
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Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings
TL;DR: General Editor's Preface Preface Acknowledgements Part 1: Genre Analysis-Theoretical Preliminaries From description to explanation in discourse analysis and approach to genre analysis.
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第二语言研究方法 = Second language research methods
Herbert W. Seliger,Elana Shohamy +1 more
TL;DR: A paradigm for second language research and an analysis of the data collection process: putting it all together.
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Second language research methods
Herbert W. Seliger,Elana Shohamy +1 more
TL;DR: A PARADIGM for second-language research is described in this paper, where the authors discuss the precparadigms of the second-lingual stage of research.