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Love, Alison – 1990
In Zimbabwe, university students continue to have problems with scientific communication despite the fact that English is a widely-used second language and students have received most formal science instruction in English. However, the problems differ from those of both students of English as a foreign language and students studying their first…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, English for Science and Technology, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Ulijn, Jan M.; Strother, Judith B. – ESP Journal, 1987
Forty-eight American (L1) and 48 Dutch students (L2), half of whom had computer science backgrounds and half of whom did not, were tested for their use of either scientific text (ST) syntactic structures or the less difficult common syntax when writing technical discourse (in Appendix). Results indicate that both L1 and L2 technical writers wrote…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Dutch, English (Second Language)
Mitchell, Evelyne – 1986
Scotland's vocationally-oriented Napier College was funded by the French Government to develop language courses for scientists and engineers. The courses developed have been intensive and extensive, based on work started by a team of French scientists focusing on the language, concepts, and ways of thinking common to the scientific community.…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Content, Course Organization, Engineering