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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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Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication 以多词搭配为工具，满足国际出版对常规化医学话语的要求

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.12.004

Ndeye Bineta Mbodj , Viviana Cortes

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Business English: Research into professional practice 商务英语：专业实践研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.03.003

Catherine Nickerson, Clarice S.C. Chan

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.05.001

Jesse Gleason

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The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university PechaKucha 演示的体裁：分析和对提高大学多模态素养的影响

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.05.002

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques , Mercedes Querol-Julián

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Making room for research promotion in RA discussion/closing sections: A Spanish-English comparative approach 在 RA 讨论/结束部分为促进研究留出空间：西班牙语与英语的比较方法

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.04.004

Ana I. Moreno

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Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language 在工作场所学习阅读病人笔记：朗读和并读如何帮助英语是额外语言的学生

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2024.04.003

Caroline Havery

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