The teaching of the English language to students Islamic Economics should aim provide them with skills needed for completing academic as well professional tasks. purposes this study are twofold: (1) identifying what types need; and (2) figuring out whether current specific (ESP) course offered is relevant their needs. This on-going employs qualitative descriptive methods 200 firstand second-yea...

This study reports on integrating ESP (English for specific purposes) multimedia courseware for semiconductor technology into instruction of three different language programs in higher education by using it as a silent partner. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to motivate retention of under-prepared students in an EFL setting. The courseware design was based on Mayer’s multimedia le...

Audiovisual translation (AVT) has been exhaustively studied from various perspectives such as Cross-cultural Studies or Reception Studies. More recently, attention paid to its value in teaching foreign languages. However, spite of the numerous descriptive papers on didactic potential AVT, relatively few are based empirical research and even fewer when referring English for Specific Purposes (ES...

This study aimed to investigate the problems faced by ESP lecturers when teaching low English proficiency students during online Maritime lessons and their strategies in dealing with problems. A questionnaire six open-ended questions was distributed 9 from 6 different Polytechnics Indonesia. follow-up interview conducted four obtain more detailed information regarding practices, especially diff...

in recent years a great number of books have appeared in various fields of esp, and the number is increasing every year. these books are specially prepared and adapted for foreign students possessing varying degrees of language skills. experts believe that the production of esp books is a vital task that requires several stages and procedures. to produce these materials, special attention shou...