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Exploring the English Language Needs of EAP Students of Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran: A Triangulated Approach [PDF]

open access: yesIssues in Language Teaching, 2018
Given the fact that few studies have investigated the English language needs of EAP students in Iran, the present study was an attempt to analyze the needs of Iranian EAP learners of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Amir Zand-Moghadam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between psychosocial job stressors and insomnia: The mediating role of psychological capital

open access: yesNursing Open, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Aim This study aimed to examine the association of job‐related stressors and insomnia; to determine the association of psychological capital and insomnia; and to explore whether psychological capital mediates the association between job‐related stressors and insomnia among Chinese nurses. Design A cross‐sectional questionnaire survey.
Juan Du   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

EAP Teacher Cognition: A Qualitative Study of Iranian In-Service EAP Teachers' Cognitions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language Horizons, 2017
Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) requires specific qualifications on the part of teachers for which reconstruction of cognitions on EAP is a prerequisite. Previous studies have largely taken the quality of teachers' EAP cognitions for granted
Mahmoud reza Atai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

EAP Learners’ Perception of Language Needs and its Matches/Mismatches with Textbook Materials [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2020
Academic literacy is a transformative approach to EAP studies that highlight the backgrounds and needs of the EAP learners in order to empower them by participating in the social practices of the international research community.
Rasool Najjar
doaj   +1 more source

Benchmarking Machine Translation Efficacy for Teaching EAP Reading Comprehension Skills [PDF]

open access: yesFanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2023
Background and Objectives: Although Machine Translation (MT) is extensively researched within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and translation studies, few studies have attempted to implement MT output in foreign language teaching (FLT).
V. Mirzaeian, M. Maghsoudi
doaj   +1 more source

ESL students’ perceptions of mobile applications for discipline-specific vocabulary acquisition for academic purposes

open access: yesKnowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2021
Undergraduates are often advised to expand their discipline-specific vocabulary in order to cope with the rigor of reading and writing academic texts. For the students studying in English-medium settings, it is in their interest to acquire vocabulary in ...
Lucas Kohnke, Adrian Ting
doaj   +1 more source

EAP and EAP Teachers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Since its development as a variant of ESP, EAP has been influenced by the theories of general language teaching and literacy movements. However, its concepts and approaches can, at times, appear too diverse for learners and practitioners to identify. This literature review aims to extract shared features of popular EAP approaches to then locate them ...
openaire   +1 more source

Chinese teachers’ perception of how TESOL differs from teaching EAP

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The last two decades have witnessed a prolific increase in academic activity in the study of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Many teachers who were trained for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) have been required to teach EAP ...
Yulong Li, Lixun Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Ecumenical alethic pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that it widens the scope of alethic pluralism by allowing for a normatively deflated truth property alongside a variety of normatively robust truth properties.
Ferrari, Filippo, Moruzzi, Sebastiano
core   +1 more source

Evaluation of EAP Programs in Iran: Document Analysis and Expert ‎Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Research on English Language, 2018
This study aimed to examine the policies in the Iranian English for Academic Purposes (EAP) education and the extent to which objectives match the policies and are materialized in practice.
Abutaleb Iranmehr   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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