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Iranian EAP Practitioners’ Competences, Practices, and Professional Development 伊朗EAP从业者的能力、实践和专业发展

ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2021.9.2.5

Shiva Kaivanpanah,Sayyed Mohammad Alavi,Ian Bruce,S. Yahya Hejazi

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引用次数: 1

Nurses Presenting in English: Needs and Requirements in the Spanish University 英语护士:西班牙大学的需求和要求

ESP Today Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2021.9.1.4

Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido,María Pilar Molés Julio

引用次数: 0

The Impact of Brexit on Tourism as Released by the Press: A Corpus-Driven Lexical Analysis 英国脱欧对旅游业的影响:一个语料库驱动的词汇分析

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.3

Camino Rea Rizzo

{"title":"The Impact of Brexit on Tourism as Released by the Press: A Corpus-Driven Lexical Analysis","authors":"Camino Rea Rizzo","doi":"10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The tourism and hospitality industry is one of the sectors that could be significantly affected by the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The potential consequences of the separation started to be echoed by the mass media as soon as the Leave result had been released. In this study, a corpus of online news counting 201,108 tokens and covering the immediate reactions to the Brexit referendum in the tourism sector is analysed using WordSmith tools with the aim to explore the lexical choice of the press to report on the impact of Brexit on tourism. Although the results of the analysis present a temporary overview of the situation, corresponding to the time span covered (from the immediate aftermath of the referendum to the beginning of 2018), both negative wordforms and their extended context evidence the negative consequences forecast for the economy in general, whereas the opposite effect is found for the tourism sector. In addition, there are instances of newly coined words such as Brexit, Brexiteer and Brexodus, and the top keywords manage to provide a clear account of the topic that answers the 5 Ws characterising the news genre. All in all, a pervasive sense of uncertainty and concern about the future after Brexit is perceived all along the samples.","PeriodicalId":501121,"journal":{"name":"ESP Today","volume":"5 1","pages":"47-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138511369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Simplification of Jury Instructions: Legal-Lay Interactions in Jury Trials 陪审团指令的简化:陪审团审判中的法律-法律互动

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.6

Olga Boginskaya

{"title":"The Simplification of Jury Instructions: Legal-Lay Interactions in Jury Trials","authors":"Olga Boginskaya","doi":"10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an empirical contribution to the area of comprehension of jury instructions, which have been intensively investigated in recent decades. By conducting a discursive analysis of the corpus of pattern jury instructions, this article discusses explanatory strategies that contribute to efficient communication in the courtroom. These explanatory strategies – definition, description, exemplification, and metaphorization – are typically employed with the aim of improving the comprehensibility of jury instructions. A paraphrasing experiment was conducted to assess the layperson’s ability to understand jury instructions before and after employing the explanatory strategies. Forty-four native Englishspeaking undergraduate and postgraduate students were asked to paraphrase pattern jury instructions containing the legal concepts “preponderance of evidence” and “circumstantial evidence”. Interpretation errors were evaluated to assess comprehension results. The results underpin the paper’s central argument that the explanatory strategies can improve the comprehensibility of legal texts indicating that efforts should be undertaken to explain abstract legal concepts to a lay audience. The pedagogical implications on the explanatory structures are also drawn.","PeriodicalId":501121,"journal":{"name":"ESP Today","volume":"5 2-3","pages":"297-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138511453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

A Blended Scientific Communication Course for Undergraduate Students: Addressing the Challenges Posed by the Covid-19 Pandemic 本科混合式科学传播课程:应对新冠肺炎大流行带来的挑战

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.1

Sujata S. Kathpalia,See Eng Kiat,Kristina Marie Tom

引用次数: 3

Triangulating Diamond Talk: Identifying Technical Spoken Vocabulary in English for Baseball Purposes 三角测量菱形谈话:识别棒球用英语的技术性口语词汇

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.6

Philip S. Riccobono

{"title":"Triangulating Diamond Talk: Identifying Technical Spoken Vocabulary in English for Baseball Purposes","authors":"Philip S. Riccobono","doi":"10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally considered the all-American sport, baseball has progressively been internationalized in recent years. Non-native English-speaking players comprised 29.8% of the 2017 opening-day Major League Baseball team rosters, representing a record 19 nations and territories (MLB, 2017). In 2012, international players filled 3,382 spots on team rosters at the minor league level (MLB, 2012). Additionally, English is the lingua franca for premiere international baseball events. To address the increasing globalization of baseball, a new subtype of English for Occupational Purposes, namely, English for Baseball Purposes, is needed in order to teach and learn the technical vocabulary essential for communicating within this discourse community (Coxhead, 2013; Nation, 2012). This study reports on the construction of the Baseball English Corpus (BECO), and offers specialized vocabulary sets based on this corpus and the recommendations of ethnographic interview participants who are core users or stakeholders of Baseball English. By utilizing a mixedmethodology design to finalize the technical spoken baseball word and phrase lists (Chung & Nation, 2003; Tangpijaikul, 2014), this study also provides insights into various methods for identifying a technical corpus based lexicon as well as some pedagogical implications for Baseball English teachers and learners.","PeriodicalId":501121,"journal":{"name":"ESP Today","volume":"7 2","pages":"114-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138511451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Writing Research Questions and Hypotheses: A Genre-Based Investigation into Writers’ Linguistic Resources in Social Sciences 写作研究问题与假设:基于体裁的社会科学作家语言资源调查

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.2

Jason Miin-Hwa Lim,Xianqing Luo

{"title":"Writing Research Questions and Hypotheses: A Genre-Based Investigation into Writers’ Linguistic Resources in Social Sciences","authors":"Jason Miin-Hwa Lim,Xianqing Luo","doi":"10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"SCIENCES Abstract Novice writers and university students often encounter problems with regard to (i) the extent to which they should include research questions and hypotheses in their research reports, and (ii) how they can effectively present these information elements to enhance clarity. To resolve these problems, we used a genre-based analytical framework and inputs provided by specialist informants to ascertain the prevalence of these information elements and the range of linguistic resources employed by writers in the research article introductions (RAIs) in two social sciences, namely Ethnic Studies (ES) and Industrial Relations (IR). We have found that most RAIs in IR incorporate research questions and hypotheses, while less than half of those in ES include them. The difference is attributable to writers’ greater tendency to employ epistemological methodologies in IR, and ontological methodologies in ES. Polar questions are rarely used in both disciplines, while factual, evaluative and circumstantial wh -questions are far more prevalent. Active anticipatory verbs and that -clauses are used to postulate hypotheses in both disciplines, whereas first-person pronouns are far more common in ES than in IR. Our findings can be flexibly adapted to design instructional materials aimed at guiding novice writers in the formulation of research questions and Key","PeriodicalId":501121,"journal":{"name":"ESP Today","volume":"8 1","pages":"206-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138511551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Comparing Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses in the Letter to Shareholders: The Case of British and Spanish Banks 《致股东信》中企业社会责任话语的比较:以英国和西班牙银行为例

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.4

Ruth Breeze,Ana M. Fernández Vallejo

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引用次数: 5

Topic Signaling Metadiscourse Devices in the Tunisian Lecture Corpus 突尼斯语演讲语料库中的话题信号元话语装置

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.3

Basma Bouziri

{"title":"Topic Signaling Metadiscourse Devices in the Tunisian Lecture Corpus","authors":"Basma Bouziri","doi":"10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying main topics is a major academic listening skill that students should develop to efficiently follow and learn from lectures. They should construct a coherent cognitive map of the lecture that they can use to understand and discuss its content. This paper examines topic signaling metadiscourse devices (MDs) in the Tunisian Lecture Corpus (TLC), a corpus of academic lectures delivered in English in the disciplines of Applied Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Literature. The approach adopted was both qualitative and quantitative relying on the manual coding of the data following three major stages: the design of topic hierarchies, the coding of discourse structuring phases, and the identification of MDs used to signal topics. One finding was the variety of MDs used to introduce topics in TLC. Phenomena related to the use of these devices were also reported and reflected an audience-oriented approach. Potential issues uncovered included absence and ambiguity of marking as well as embedding. These findings are discussed particularly with reference to their pedagogical implications, as the data and its analysis can be used to design professional development programs for lecturers and academic materials to support English majors when attending lectures in Tunisia.","PeriodicalId":501121,"journal":{"name":"ESP Today","volume":"18 5","pages":"227-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138511470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Modal Expression of Necessity in English for Tourism 旅游英语中必要性的情态表达

ESP Today Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2020.8.2.5

Aleksandra Radovanović

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引用次数: 2