EAP plays a highly important role in countries where English is used mainly for academic purposes. However, EAP programs have been developed without conducting a systematic needs analysis from both the students’ and instructors’ perspective. The purpose of this study is to describe the perception that EAP students and instructors have of the problematic areas in EAP programs. A total of 693 EAP...

english for academic purposes (eap) is a significant part of the curriculum in iranian universities. however, it seems that eap programs have been developed without a systematic needs analysis. the purpose of this study was assessing the present and target situation needs of two groups of undergraduates of computer science. a total of 320 students and 44 instructors participated in this triangu...

This research explores the need for English Academic Purposes (EAP) among Majmaah University students admitted into Colleges of Medicine, Applied Medical Sciences, and Engineering. The purpose this study was to persuade stakeholders that a needs analysis only objective method inform course design process. Data were collected from 180 participants using questionnaire. came revealed there signifi...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

Over the last decades, there has been a plethora of interest in possible challenges encountered by researchers while publishing research articles (RAs) in various disciplines for English for academic purposes (EAP).Given this, this study aimed to examine how a sampled number of EAPIranian researchers perceive the competence of academic RA writing, the major reasons for RA rejection, and difficu...

This study aimed to examine the policies in the Iranian English for Academic Purposes (EAP) education and the extent to which objectives match the policies and are materialized in practice. To this end, course descriptions in the syllabi for the EAP programs were evaluated through document analysis and triangulated with the experts’ perspectives through interviews to examine the current status ...

This study was conducted in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) context to explore Iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and their sense of professional identity (PI) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in EAP classes. To this end, two ELT teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach EAP courses in addition to...

In a scholarly convention, ESP has bilaterally focused on “academic” and “occupational” arenas leaving the symbiosis between the two almost untouched. The present study, thus, aims to weigh the concordance between what is taught in universities as EAP courses for B.A. students in Business and Economics and what English skills and abilities are, actually, required from them on the job. A...