Needs analysis is essential in designing English materials. A powerful teaching-learning tool for practitioners, it allows them to produce resources linked students' needs. It therefore viewed as an part of the teaching process conducting need analysis. This study aims expose academic studies related types materials and learning activities desired by students. examined 232 students enrolled fiv...

The present work is aimed at examining how efficient it to teach language rhythm enhance English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learners’ fluency. 298 Spanish/Catalan speakers participated in the experiment, among which 42 students fulfilled treatment and were examined as subjects of study. For ten weeks, participants took pronunciation instruction within their regular lessons. sessions lasted thi...

  University students in Iran need English to reinforce their specialist knowledge in order to meet their academic needs and not to be isolated from technological advances. The architecture students at the university level in Iran are no exception. Bearing this in mind, the present research intends to address itself to the following questions: 1) what are the problems in materials design in ESP...

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...

Parent involvement (PI) in school is associated with more positive academic performance and social competence in children. However, there are inadequacies in current measures of PI and a need for a better understanding of predictors of PI. In this study, measures were obtained from a normative sample of 387 children in kindergarten and first grade from high-risk neighborhoods in 4 different sit...

The enterococcal surface protein, Esp, originally found in Enterococcus faecalis, has been associated with increased virulence, colonization, and biofilm formation (2, 3, 5, 6). Recently, a variant esp gene was found in Enterococcus faecium isolates from humans (L. Baldassarri, L. Burtuccini, M. G. Ammendolia, G. Gherardi, and R. Creti, Letter, Lancet 357:1802, 2001; R. J. Willems, W. Homan, J....

Homework is a debated issue in society and its relationship with academic achievement has been deeply studied in the last years. Nowadays, schools are multicultural stages in which students from different cultures and ethnicities work together. In this sense, the present study aims to compare homework involvement and academic achievement in a sample of native and immigrant students, as well as ...

The aim of this research is to determine the influence students' English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom anxiety and self-efficacy on their achievement. exploratory, based a quantitative approach systematic non-experimental observation. results show that ESP negatively correlated with anxiety. achievements are positively related self-efficacy, accordingly they some students aware can, whi...