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Ou, Chuying – English Language Teaching, 2019
ESP textbook plays an important role in facilitating students to develop their profession-related language skills. However, ESP textbooks published in China are less developed and often criticized as ignoring the training of language skills. This research aims to reveal the specific problems of China's ESP textbooks by conducting a multiple-case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English for Special Purposes, Computer Science
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Zarei, Gholam Reza; Mansoori, Sara – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study studied contrastively the use of metadiscourse in two disciplines (applied linguistics vs. computer engineering) across two languages (Persian and English). The selected corpus was analyzed through the model suggested by Hyland and Tse (2004). The results revealed the metadiscursive resources are used differently both within and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Indo European Languages, Humanities