Abstract The present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of ESP instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional ESP teachers. The main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of ESP teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach ESP. To find the answer, a questionnaire was...

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching sati...

<p>Learning strategies are determined as an effective approach to learning ESP. To implement more useful strategies, it is essential understand the extent of practice toward strategies. The study focused on six (6) including (1) Memorization, (2) Cognitive, (3) Metacognitive, (4) Compensation, (5) Affective, and Social, which were applied in four English skills belonging for Tourism cours...

The presented study reveals the theoretical prerequisites for expediency of applying personally oriented and pragmatic approaches to integrated learning English special purposes, in particular, when studying learner needs future journalists. necessity explore specific field professionally communication (POEC) journalists is determined by requirement adapt language policy higher education instit...

the present study aimed at exploring the potential relationship between language learning strategies (lls) and factors such as major fields of study, sex, and language proficiency among university students across different fields such as medicine, sciences, engineering, humanities, and english. to this end, 200 master students were collected and tested. in addition, 25 english teachers were inc...

Negotiated syllabus addresses learners‟ needs and assists them in developing their own on-going syl- labus through shared decision-making in the classroom. Many studies focus on the effect of this learner-centered syllabus on language learning. However, few studies exist on its effect on the reading ability of language learners, especially in the area of English for specific ...

Conventional solid phase amplification regimens such as solid phase PCR (SP-PCR), asymmetric SP-PCR, and bridge PCR are mechanistically limited with respect to amplification efficiency and solid support primer involvement. Here we present enhanced solid phase PCR (ESP-PCR) in which solid support primer priming is facilitated by its nesting and high melting temperature (T(m)) relative to the aqu...