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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) AND THE TEACHING OF FINANCIAL ENGLISH

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) AND THE TEACHING OF FINANCIAL ENGLISH
In Japan, teachers of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) have up to the present been mostly university English professors. The subjects they have taught include English for business communication and English for science and technology. However, people who are not university English professors but specialists in such areas as foreign trade, finance ...
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Poverty Attributions and Voting Choices in the 2023 Swiss National Elections

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Is poverty a relevant issue for Swiss electoral politics and political behavior? In this paper we answer that question by showing that citizens’ agreement with different causal attributions of poverty matters for their voting decisions. Of highest relevance is the difference between an “individual blame” explanation (i.e., the poor are lazy ...
Lionel Marquis, Jessy Sparer
wiley   +1 more source

A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen in the West.
Jon McGinnis
wiley   +1 more source

Bangladeshi University Students’ Motivation and Translanguaging Ideologies Toward English‐Medium Instruction

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This mixed‐methods study explores relationships among university students’ motivation for English‐medium instruction (EMI), beliefs about English‐only practices, and views on translanguaging at a Bangladeshi private university. It also examines whether disciplinary background and previous medium of instruction shape these perspectives.
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Xuyan Qiu, Guangwei Hu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
wiley   +1 more source

What happened after the epidemic? Equine influenza surveillance sheds light on sources and seasonal risk in the United Kingdom

Equine Veterinary Journal, Volume 58, Issue 5, Page 1269-1282, September 2026.
Abstract Background The epidemiology of equine influenza (EI) in the United Kingdom has not been systematically described since the 2019 epidemic. Objectives To summarise UK EI surveillance (2020–2024), quantify outbreak seasonality and assess movement‐related sources. Study Design Retrospective observational analysis of national surveillance and horse
Fleur Whitlock, John Grewar, Richard Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive Analysis for the Evaluation of Torrential Floods and Slope Stability of River Channels: La China River Area (Colombia)

Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2026.
Colombia and other tropical regions face a very high threat from torrential floods, which have resulted in over 25,000 deaths in a single event. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive assessment methodology to zone and determine the magnitude of these disasters; therefore, this research aims to help fill this gap.
Carlos A. Buenahora Ballesteros, Antonio M. Martínez‐Graña, Mariano Yenes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

Scripta Manent, 2016
Violeta Jurkovič
doaj   +2 more sources

Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 3780-3814, September 2026.
Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead, Saeed Loghman, Alexander Newman, Ronald Riggio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 548-562, September 2026.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source