Face Validity In ESP: A Quantitative Student Validation of an Engineering ESP Approach

A Critique of ESP

On the Consequential Validity of ESP Tests: A Qualitative Study in Iran

    Consequential validity, a component of construct validity as a unified concept introduced by Messick(1989), deals with the impacts of tests on teaching, learning, individual test takers, teachers, society, and educational system within a country. Although the impacts of language tests on teaching and learning have been somehow studied, the consequences of ESP tests on individual test taker...

esp needs analysis of iranian ma students: a case study of university of isfahan

نیاز سنجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد ایرانی در رابطه با زبان تخصصی: مطالعه ای در دانشگاه اصفهان هدف از این مطالعه بررسی نیازهای یادگیری زبان خارجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان در رشته های زیست شناسی، روانشناسی، تربیت بدنی، حسابداری و فلسفه ی غرب میباشد. در مجموع 80 دانشجودر پنج رشته ی متفاوت از دانشگاه اصفهان در این پژوهش شرکت داشتند.علاوه بر این هشتاد دانشجو،25 استاد دروس ت...

ESP - Metaphor for learning: an evolutionary algorithm

The organizational algorithm is examined as a computational approach to representing interpersonal learning. The structure of the algorithm is introduced and described in context to the simple genetic algorithm. A comparison is made of the performance of both algorithms with respect to three different test functions: a simple single-peaked function, the standard Matlab “peaks” function (Mathwor...

ESP and psychology

SIR CYRIL BURT, ESP and psychology, edited by Anita Gregory, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 179, £4.50. Although Cyril Burt (1883-1971) is best known for his work on the application of psychology to education, to the development of children and to the assessment of mental qualities, he also contributed to ESP, as an obituarist had to point out (The Times, 15 October 1971). T...