The university curriculum plays a role in motivating students to take up research. This 2-year action research explored the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and its influence on student further engagement work. data were collected from University Master's through two questionnaires given them before after studying course. An explanatory framework course characteristics that affected students...

The present study aimed to assess the target and present reading comprehension needs and abilities of Iranian medical students with different levels of English language proficiency. A total of 283 medical students and 23 ESP instructors were chosen through cluster sampling. The data collection instruments included the Persian version of Atai and Nazari’s (2011) needs analysis questionnaire and ...

Stance is a key and problematic domain for effective English Academic Purposes (EAP) reading writing. Insufficient awareness of stance, cultural attitudes about it, poor teaching have been identified as underlying sources stance-related difficulties. Focusing on stance may thus be pivotal reading-to-write lens to improve academic literacy. However, few studies investigated pre-service teachers’...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

Finding an answer to the effectiveness of autonomous learning in contrast traditional forms teacher-directed has significant pedagogical ramifications. Our study sheds light on effects increased autonomy SL development students and role instructor. Furthermore, we focus international student experiences order understand ramifications for their development, context internationalization.&nbsp...