Sports English Education as English for Specific Purposes(ESP)

English for specific purposes: implications in medical education.

English for Specific Purposes: Proposing an Innovative Approach to Teaching English to Medical Students

Background: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. However, at many Iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the Grammar Translation Method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. The present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching English to Medical students that ca...

Defining an Adequate Education for English Learners

This article explores the components of an “adequate” education for linguistic minority students in California and attempts to distinguish these from the components of an adequate education for low-income students who are native English speakers. About 1.6 million students were classified as English learners (ELs) in California in 2006. We argue that in order to determine the costs of educating...

English education for healthcare professionals in Japan

In a global environment, education for healthcare professionals should include cultivating human resources who have the necessary skills to work in an international arena. This article will review the current status of English education for dental healthcare professionals in Japan. After conducting a literature search using the keywords: English education, Japan, and dental, only a few studies ...

Pororobot: Child Tutoring Robot for English Education

The recent success of machine learning has lead to advancements in robot intelligence and human-robot interaction. It is reported that robots can well understand visual scene information and describe the scenes in language using computer vision and natural language processing methods. Image Question-Answering (QA) systems can be used for human-robot interaction. However, to achieve human-level ...