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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Students’ English Language Learning: Needs and Perceptions

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2018
This study investigated the medical students’ English language learning needs and their perceptions of ESP courses in an academic environment. To do this, 100 medical students studying medical sciences in the faculty of medicine in Mashhad, Iran, were ...
Karimnia Amin, Khodashenas Mohammad Reza
doaj   +1 more source

FILLING THE GAP BETWEEN TARGET NEEDS AND STUDENT WANTS IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTAL PURPOSES

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2019
Filling the Gap between Target Needs and Student Wants in English for Academic Environmental Purposes. The present paper sets out to bring forward some of the current issues in nowadays ESP teaching, such as, in what ways can ESP teachers produce and ...
Octavia-Raluca ZGLOBIU
doaj   +1 more source

Needs Analysis of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in Students’ Speaking Materials

EDULEC : Education, Language, and Culture Journal
Needs analysis is crucial in the development of speaking material and serves as a valuable tool for teachers to create materials that align with the specific requirements and learning goals of the learners. This study aims to investigate needs analysis of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in students’ speaking materials.
null Luana Sasabone, null Irman, null Anwar Taufiq, null Nurul Amaliah Hasbi   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Providing a Gender Perspective on Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches: Experiences of Students From 17 International Case Studies

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the last three decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have integrated sustainability into their curricula. Recent research has focused on sustainability competences and pedagogical approaches, and how the latter foster the development of the former. Previous studies have examined the connections between pedagogical approaches and
Gabriela Ortiz‐Martínez, Maria Barreiro‐Gen, Jordi Segalàs, Alberto Mendoza, Sandra Caeiro, João Simão, Claudio Favi, Bartłomiej Gładysz, María Alló, Carmen Gago‐Cortés, Ubiratã Tortato, Ferenc Mónus, Sevket Bostanci, Márta Dobróné Tóth, Javier Benayas, María Teresa Jiménez Munguía, Déborah Xanat Flores Cervantes, René Alejandro Lara Díaz, Nelly Ramírez Corona, Cheryl Desha, Rob Hales, Jennifer Boddy, Ilija Djekic, Savindi Caldera, Orlando Sáenz, Leyla Azizi, Remmer Sassen, Rodrigo Lozano   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing General and Academic L2 Writing Complexity Through Dialogue Journal Writing: The Role of Learners' Motivational Beliefs

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Writing is crucial in tertiary education, yet enhancing the complexity of academic writing presents significant challenges for second language (L2) learners. This study explores the potential of dialogue journal writing (DJW), an interactive and low‐stress classroom activity, to enhance writing complexity among novice L2 writers.
Barry Lee Reynolds, Xiaoke Bai, Brian V. Rusk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thailand’s Higher Education English for Specific Purposes Practitioners: Problems, Solutions and a Potential Practices Model

EDUCATIO: Journal of Education, 2023
This sequential and concurrent mixed-method study aimed to identify the problems that higher education English for Specific Purposes (ESP) practitioners in Thailand encountered and the solutions they employed to overcome these problems.
Traithana Chaovanapricha, Wilawan Champakaew   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz, Kaisa S. Pietikäinen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A focus on objectives, outcomes, and learner needs in ESP courses

Strani Jezici, 2023
In light of the growing demands for English language acquisition, various stakeholders within the domain of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) have directed their focus towards the elaboration of learner needs and the attainment of learning ...
Adriana Petra Blažević, Mara Ruža Blažević   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source