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Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening TED教育动画对学术听力的适用性

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.06.001

Chen-Yu Liu

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The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers 无线电话通信的挑战和有效的训练方法：对韩国飞行员和空中交通管制员的研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.07.001

Youn-hee Kim

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Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom 商务英语课堂中假设报告言语的运用

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.06.002

Uma Tadema

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A practitioner commentary: Flowerdew, J. and Wan, A. (2010). The linguistic and the contextual in applied genre analysis: The case of the company audit report. English for Specific Purposes 29 (2010), 78–93 从业者评论：Flowerdew，J.和Wan，A.（2010）。应用类型分析中的语言与语境：以公司审计报告为例。《特定用途英语》29（2010），78-93

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.05.005

Philip Jeffrey Saxon

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.08.004

Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Arefe Amini Faskhodi

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A corpus-based study of vocabulary in massive open online courses (MOOCs) 基于语料库的大规模在线开放课程词汇研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.08.002

Chen-Yu Liu

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.08.005

Basim Alamri

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A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals 视觉评论的修辞功能与语词分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.09.001

Jincheng Wu , Cecilia Guanfang Zhao , Xiaofei Lu , Tan Jin

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Tracking the first-year experience in English medium instruction: A pre-post study of transitional challenges 追踪英语教学一年级的经历：过渡挑战的前后研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.09.002

Ikuya Aizawa

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Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems 研究文章文献综述部分的引文内容：信息系统中设计科学与解释主义研究的跨范式比较

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.08.001

Thomas Hon Tung Chan , Becky Siu Chu Kwan

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