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Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation 研究文章讨论部分的凝聚力：跨学科调查

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.08.004

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.08.003

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English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs? 伊朗土木工程专业学生的英语语言需求：课程是否符合工作场所的需求？

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.08.002

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Enhancing aviation English competency: A simulation-based approach for aspiring pilots 提高航空英语能力：针对有抱负的飞行员的模拟方法

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.08.001

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English needs analysis of food & beverage employees: A case study of a 5-star resort in Vietnam 餐饮员工英语需求分析：越南五星级度假村案例研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.07.001

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A corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis of the linguistic features of Aviation English 基于语料库的航空英语语言特点多维分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.05.004

Wen Zhao

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Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team 会议演讲准备会是工程研究团队学术话语社会化的场所

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-06-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.06.002

Elif Burhan-Horasanlı

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Metadiscursive nouns in corporate communication: A cross-cultural study of CEO letters in the US and Chinese corporate social responsibility reports 企业传播中的元杂名词：中美企业社会责任报告中CEO信函的跨文化研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.06.001

Chunyu Hu , Zedong Zhao , Chunmei Lu

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Perceptions of supervisors and their doctoral students regarding the problems in writing the doctoral dissertation results section 导师及其博士生对博士论文结果部分写作问题的看法

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.06.003

Shih-Chieh Chien , Wei-Yan Li

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A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited 对基于语料库的论文写作教学观点的批判性评论：重新审视特定性

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.05.003

Lynne Flowerdew, Bojana Petrić

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