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Willey, Ian; Tanimoto, Kimie – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Native English-speaking (NES) English teachers at universities in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts are sometimes asked to edit English manuscripts written by non-native English-speaking (NNES) colleagues in scientific fields. However, professional peers may differ from English teachers in their approach towards editing scientific…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Editing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Handford, Michael; Matous, Petr – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
The purpose of this research is to identify and interpret statistically significant lexicogrammatical items that are used in on-site spoken communication in the international construction industry, initially through comparisons with reference corpora of everyday spoken and business language. Several data sources, including audio and video…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Case Studies, Verbal Communication
Cowling, Jeremy David – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
This paper gives a detailed description of the needs analysis (NA) stage in the development of a set of English language intensive courses at a large Japanese industrial firm. The case study highlights the NA practices of using multiple sources and multiple methods in the data gathering stage and uses triangulation in order to validate results.…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries, Industry, Intensive Language Courses