BACKGROUND Preparation of specialist critical care nurses in Australia is at graduate level, although there remains considerable variation in courses offered in relation to qualification, content, assessment and outcomes. As higher education providers must now comply with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) a study was conducted to examine existing critical care courses and graduate p...

Due to Covid-19, there was a sudden shift distance learning (DL) without prior preparation. Students and faculty surveys showed that 51% of the students were dissatisfied with EL, online communication their instructors, had difficulty understanding class lectures material concerns about exams. Even when face instruction resumed in Fall 2021, some courses still delivered online. It seems departm...

In this paper, the machine translation (MT) tools that have been developed in the University of Macau, with a focus on the languages of Portuguese and Chinese, are presented. These systems, act as a translation tools, can be used to better manage the workflow of professional translators, as well as used as facilities for teaching courses. Machine translation, as the chosen theme in this paper, ...

The significant role of needs analysis in enriching the design and content of ESP course books could be in no way ignored. The present study based on a three-year longitudinal needs analysis study of medical students, a medical ESP course book was developed and approved by experts. The feedback of the four-semester practice of the approved book revealed that practitioners showed great interest ...

The main priority for university translation educators is to improve the quality and outcomes of translation courses. To achieve such a goal, the instructors are required to integrate learners' needs, identified with the help of a needs survey, into syllabus content. Accordingly, the present study was conducted to identify the Iranian English majors' difficulties in translating English texts si...

Comparative literature cannot be thought of as ignoring translation. Instead, translation studies are more critical for comparative literature, every word has several connotations various cultures. Through translation, works can influence each other, and people come closer to other cultures understand others better. Most Indian readers, through the intermediary get access Goethe, Tolstoy, Balza...