PREFACE Health Services Research & Development Service's (HSR&D's) Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) was established to provide timely and accurate syntheses of targeted healthcare topics of particular importance to Veterans Affairs (VA) managers and policymakers, as they work to improve the health and healthcare of Veterans. The ESP disseminates these reports throughout VA. HSR&D provides...

Framed against the backdrop of internationalization higher education, this paper argues for need to cross disciplinary boundaries and build stronger bridges between domains English-medium education ESP/EAP, particularly at a time when English-taught programmes seem challenge status quo ESP professionals. To end, article will first briefly describe objects study – ESP/EAP EME map out relationshi...

Learning English for Specific Purpose (ESP) vocational students, is very important so that certain ways are needed to encourage students' needs. Students must receive sufficient material in based on their interests and majors. This study aims analyze learning needs of tourism guide materials. The method used this qualitative quantitative research design where the data collected with numerical f...

Background: Testing and teaching are interrelated in education process; using various kinds of tests, teachers are able to anticipate the strong and weak points of learning in students, their progress and their accomplishment. The influence of test on teaching and learning is commonly referred to as washback. Testing washback is a twisted concept that becomes even more complex under a various i...

Teaching English to Engineers is part of English for Specific Purposes, a domain which is under the attention of English students especially under the current conditions of finding jobs and establishing partnerships outside Romania. The paper will analyse the existing textbooks together with the teaching strategies they adopt. Teaching English to Engineering students can intersect with domains ...

This study analyzes the needs of pharmacy students in a private university for English Specific Purposes (ESP) Indonesia. The data were gathered through semi-structural interviews based on determining themes with eight selected who completed course, lecturer specific purposes, and supported by document analysis ESP syllabus department. Data was conducted interactive collection, reduction, prese...

This study aimed at finding out the effect of two different methods of ESP instruction, namely, the traditional grammar translation method and an eclectic method on improving university students' reading comprehension ability. The main assumption was that compared to the Grammar-Translation which is probably not an efficient method, an eclectic method that focuses on improving reading comprehen...