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Ward, Jeremy – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This paper concerns the teaching of English to learners who are studying, or will soon study, engineering and who are expected to do at least part of their studying through textbooks written in English. Such students, especially in universities in developing countries, often find themselves very poorly equipped by their secondary education for…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Word Lists, Engineering, College Students

Horsella, Maria; Perez, Fresia – English for Specific Purposes, 1991
A study was conducted in which Nominal Compounds (NCs) were examined and classified in the field of chemistry from introductory texts. Some pedagogical implications of this study could be to teach the high-frequency semantic relations in NCs at the beginning stages. (16 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Chemistry, English for Science and Technology, Nouns, Second Language Learning

Ramani, Esther; And Others – English for Specific Purposes, 1988
Argues for an ethnographic reorientation to needs analysis and syllabus design in English for specific purposes in advanced postgraduate centers of science and technology. The seven-stage framework (specify learners, analyze needs, specify enabling objectives, select materials, identify teaching/learning activities, evaluate, and revise) used to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English for Science and Technology, English for Special Purposes, Ethnography

Diaz-Santos, Gilberto – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Focuses on a particular teaching experience where a contemporary fiction work featuring high tech has been used as a source material in English for science and technology courses, and how this approach has had a positive impact on students' motivation to learn English as well as on their overall performance in the foreign language. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English for Science and Technology, Fiction, Higher Education

Soler, Viviana – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Explores frequency and use of adjectives in five advanced scientific texts on biochemistry and analyzes the semantic implications of the observed occurrence. The aim is to provide a better understanding of the role of adjectives in research articles and to suggest how to guide Spanish-speaking students to effectively comprehend, read, write, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advanced Courses, Biochemistry, Discourse Analysis

Parkinson, Jean – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Describes a theme-based language course for science students at a South African university. Suggests that acquisition of language for science and technology should be regarded as acquisition of a range of literacies of science rather than acquisition of skills or grammatical features. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English for Science and Technology, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Ching, Lee Chien – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
A classroom implementation of strategy and self-regulation instruction examined whether instruction would help students to plan and revise their essays and if students had the competence to regulate their writing. Also sought to determine if such instruction would improve their attribution, self-efficacy, and self-determination.Suggests that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology

Voracek, Jaroslav – English for Specific Purposes, 1987
In Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries, where native English speakers are rare and only limited quantities of English-language literature are available, the English for specific purposes teacher has to be more versatile and be able to accommodate the varying levels of English mastery of students. (CB)
Descriptors: Czech, Educational Needs, English for Science and Technology, English for Special Purposes

Halimah, Ahmad M. – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Analyzed matched writing samples of 100 native Arabic speakers' writing on writing for science and technology (WST) topics in English and Arabic. Findings indicate that, though students have studied English-as-a-foreign-language writing for 8 years, and are judged to be good at the mechanics and lexis and grammar, they still have trouble with WST…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology

Jacobson, Wayne H. – English for Specific Purposes, 1986
Learner needs in English for academic purposes were analyzed in terms of the strategic competence needed to successfully carry out required work in an undergraduate physics laboratory, including: evaluating and selecting information; synthesizing information; applying information to different situations; and establishing working relationships with…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English for Academic Purposes
Li, Yongyan – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
This is a sociopolitically-oriented qualitative case study [Casanave, C. P. (2003). Looking ahead to more sociopolitically-oriented case study research in L2 writing scholarship (But should it be called "post-process"?). "Journal of Second Language Writing," 12, 85-102.] of the writing-for-publication experience of an NNSE (nonnative speaker of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Physics, Case Studies