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Current Status of English Instruction at Medical Universities in Iran: Zooming in on Teachers

Archives of Advances in Biosciences, 2023
Introduction: English language is now an indispensable part of higher education, and a good command of English, like in many parts around the globe, is of special importance for Iranian university students who want to continue their education toward a ...
Mostafa Pourhaji, Samad Sajjadi, Majid Soltani Moghaddam, Enayatollah Shabani   +3 more
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Reading in English for Academic Purposes

Journal of Modern Languages, 2017
This study considers the issue of the relative importance of familiarity of content and language proficiency in reading in a second/foreign language.
Soon Hock Tan
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Iranian EAP Teachers and Students’ Perceptions of Critical English for Academic Purposes [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies
Critical English for academic purposes (CEAP) has been an attempt to challenge the status quo in English for academic purposes (EAP) education. However, it has not received due attention in the literature.
Tahereh Movahhedi, Seyyed Amir Hossein Sarkeshikian, Mohammad Golshan   +2 more
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An Overview Of Needs Analysis In The Field Of English For Specific Purposes And Some Case Studies In The Occupational Sector

Al-Lisaniyyat, 2019
This paper aims at providing a theoretical overview of the significance of ‘Needs Analysis’ (henceforth, (NA)) as a corner stone in designing ESP courses. First, it summarises the most frequently used definitions of ESPand its main sub-divisions.
Asma Merine, Mohamed Yamine BOULENOUAR
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NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN ETHIOPIA

LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2022
This study aims to investigate undergraduate students’ needs analysis in English for Academic Purposes. In this study, three hundred-eight first-year students and forty-one EAP and subject area instructors at Wachemo University participated.
Sileshi Chemir, Tamene Kitila
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A Mixed-Methods Study Into the Discipline-Specific Effect of Critical EAP on Reading Comprehension [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies
Although critical English for academic purposes (CEAP) has grown theoretically, more research is needed to explore it in more depth. This sequential mixed-methods study primarily aimed to examine whether the CEAP and traditional English for academic ...
Tahereh Movahhedi, Seyyed Amir Hossein Sarkeshikian, Mohammad Golshan   +2 more
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Needs Analysis in English for Academic Purposes: The Case of Teaching Assistants at the University of Khartoum

HOW, 2018
This study aimed at investigating the English language needs of teaching assistants at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. The study focused on identifying the teaching assistants’ purposes for learning English, and discovering the most important skills ...
Abuelgasim Sabah Elsaid Mohammed, Hala Salih Mohammed Nur   +1 more
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Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Russian Universities: A Case of Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Высшее образование в России, 2018
The paper discusses the impact of English for Specific Academic Purposes teaching methodology on developing in-house materials for the course of English for Social Sciences taught at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
Lubov V. Zavarykina
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Google Translate in Academic Writing Courses?

The EUROCALL Review, 2018
The aim of this study was to explore the possible benefits of using Google Translate (GT) at various tertiary English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course levels, i.e., to see if the use of GT affects the quantity and quality of student writing.
Sara Kol, Miriam Schcolnik, Elana Spector-Cohen   +2 more
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“The past is the future with the lights on”: Reflections on AELFE’s 20th birthday [PDF]

Ibérica, 2012
In this paper I offer a brief personal reflection on what strikes me as the main features of this period, focusing on increased specialization, the coming to dominance of genre and corpus analyses, the opening up of teaching paradigms related to social ...
Ken Hyland
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