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...

abstract using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. the present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the english and persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 fifa world cup. toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 english and 400 persian headlines published during 12th of june to 13th of july, 2014 was c...

We describe the CMU systems submitted to the 2013 WMT shared task in machine translation. We participated in three language pairs, French–English, Russian– English, and English–Russian. Our particular innovations include: a labelcoarsening scheme for syntactic tree-totree translation and the use of specialized modules to create “synthetic translation options” that can both generalize beyond wha...

A Concise Syriac-English Dictionary is the door to world of modern Syriac studies. The 13,000 entries cover vocabulary most medieval texts, with exception perhaps specialized ones. Anglo-Syriac part serves as a convenient tool for determining semantic areas and English words, which often do not coincide.

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

The dominance of English as the world language of publication has had a decisive impact on the dissemination of information and innovation across cultures, with a resulting tendency to a standardization of scientific conceptualization. This dominance does not only impact scientific and academic discourse, but also the whole range of professional and technical texts representative of various spe...