scholarly journals Challenges in English for Specific Purposes: Case-Study of Economics Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Djamila djam Benchennane ◽  
Mustapha Stambouli
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Economics Students ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
The Status

This research work is to investigate the status of English for Specific Purposes course on first year Master students of Economics in their development of English for Specific Purposes. It focuses on one research instrument for data collection which is: classroom observation. The results revealed that teachers of English are not ESP teachers; therefore, they need to collaborate more with subject specialists to improve their own levels and to learn modern methods of teaching, they should also proceed to Needs analysis as far as the learners are concerned. Hence some recommendations and tips are provided so as to boost the students’ learning process.   Key words: collaboration;  ESP; language teachers ; needs analysis, subject specialists

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING AT THE FIRST YEARS STUDENTS OF SMK 2 GERUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hudri
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Teacher Strategies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Academic Year

This study is aimed to find out teachers strategies in teaching reading at SMK 2 Gerung West Lombok. It was conducted to get detailed information about the strategies used by teachers in teaching reading comprehension. This study employed a qualitative research design which is included as a case study using two data collection techniques; observation and interview. The object of this study was the teacher for the first year. Interviews were used to support the data gathered from classroom observation. All of the data were analyzed by using three major phases of analyses: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification. This study revealed that the teachers used three strategies in teaching reading at SMK 2 Gerung West Lombok, the first is Memorizing strategy where the students must memorize five vocabularies every meeting. Secondly is Question Answer Relationship. This strategy used by the teacher to know the students understand or not. The third strategy is Game this strategy used by the teacher to motivate students in teaching reading process.

scholarly journals School Improvement by Addressing Bullying: Α Case Study in Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
A. Ioannis
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
School Community ◽  
First Year ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Weak Points

<p style="text-align: justify;">The main purpose of this study case is to investigate the contribution of the school community to the improvement of the school. In that context, a two-phase research was conducted. In the first phase, the self-evaluation process was implemented during the first year of the research with the participation of the school community. An overall picture of the school was created, with its strong and weak points reflected in the school's final self-evaluation report. Upon the completion of the school self-evaluation process the school community decided on the implementation of actions in order to reduce a number of dysfunctional behaviors, such as bullying incidents that occurred in the school on the part of some students. The school actions and the relevant results constituted the second phase of the research work. The results showed that some of the dysfunctional behaviors were found to be decreased to a statistically significant level after action was taken by the school community.</p>

scholarly journals An English Needs Analysis of Medical Doctors in Western Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Ian Willey ◽  
Kimie Tanimoto ◽  
Gerardine McCrohan ◽  
Katsumi Nishiya
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Western Japan ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

Despite the importance of English to medical doctors (MDs), few studies have examined the English needs of MDs in EFL contexts. This paper describes an English needs analysis of MDs in western Japan, which aimed to identify how these MDs use English, which English skills were most important to their work, and what their views were on English education. Findings from a questionnaire survey of MDs at one university hospital and five nonuniversity hospitals showed that these MDs primarily used English to gather information, although they were dissatisfied with their university English education for failing to improve their speaking skills. Interviews revealed that English use in unscripted situations causes stress for these MDs, and that most of their English-speaking patients are not native English speakers. These findings suggest that Japanese MDs need general speaking skills more than discipline-specific expressions and vocabulary and signal the importance of communicative language teachers in English for specific purposes (ESP) education. 医師にとって英語は大変重要であるが、外国語としての英語に関する医師のニーズについて検討した研究は少ない。本研究は、西日本の大学病院あるいは一般病院で勤務する医師を対象に、質問紙およびインタビューにより英語ニーズとして英語使用状況、職務上重要な英語スキル、学生時代に受けた英語教育に対する意見を調査した。質問紙調査から、医師は、主に情報収集のために英語を使用しており、学生時代の英語教育ではスピーキングスキルを伸ばせないと不満を持っていることが示された。インタビューから、即興での英語使用はストレスであること、例え英語を話す患者であってもその多くがネイティブでないことが明らかとなった。以上のことから日本の医師には、領域特有の表現や専門用語より、一般的スピーキングスキルが必要であり、特定の目的のための英語（English for specific purposes、ESP）教育に関するコミュニカティブ・ランゲージ教育者の必要性が示唆された。 Keywords: English for medical purposes; interview; needs analysis; questionnaire

scholarly journals Games And Students: Perceptions And Evidence From A DUT Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jason Stratton Davis
Keyword(s):  
Production Function ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
First Year ◽  
Economics Students ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Results

The poor performance of first year economics students across higher education institutions is a well-established phenomenon (Parker, 2006). The traditional response has been to analyse this poor performance using a production function where factors are identified and their influence measured. The problem, however, may not be solved entirely by looking at the factors, but at the production function i.e. the relationship between learning and the mode of delivery. This article seeks to challenge the traditional mode of lecture-based learning by introducing economic games into the formal tuition programme. The evidence collected during research indicates positive results in terms of students perceptions and performance.

scholarly journals From General to Specific English: A Case Study of NUML

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Maryam Dar
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Observation Tools ◽  
Learning Interest ◽  
National Universities

The present study was conducted to explore the need for ESP courses in Pakistani universities. The present study scrutinizes the target needs of the students of Advanced English Language Diploma of National Universities of Modern Languages who join the Language Course for occupational purposes. The sample for the study consisted of 40 students, 5 teachers and 5 alumni. The needs, lacks, wants, expectations, preferred style of learning, interest and satisfaction level of students were determined with the help of Needs Analysis using questionnaires, interviews and observation tools. The results indicate low interest and satisfaction level of the students due to the general nature of the Diploma course. This calls for the separate ESP courses for the students who join the English Diploma courses for occupational reasons.Key words: Needs analysis; English for specific purposes; General to specific; NUML; ESP in PakistanJournal of NELTA Vol. 15 No. 1-2 December 2010Page: 28-42Uploaded date: 4 May, 2011DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v15i1-2.4607

scholarly journals Unpacking Writing Needs of Nepalese University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Gopal Prasad Pandey
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Syllabus Design

Assessing students’ needs is an integral part of English for specific purposes (ESP) syllabus design. Due to the significance of writing in the English for business specific purposes, there has been increasing interest in ESP studies to assess students’ writing needs. This study aimed at exploring writing needs of Bachelor of Business Studies students of Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal. Ninety two Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) first year students and 10 English teachers of TU took part in this study. Questionnaires served as the main tools for conducting needs analysis (NA). The findings revealed that both the groups of participants (students and teachers) perceived all seven sub-skills of writing as ‘important’. There is consistency between students’ perceptions of importance of subskills of writing and teachers’ perception of importance of the sub-skills. Regarding the perceived competence, teacher participants found their students’ abilities to be “not very good” or even “poor” in the subskills which they considered ‘important’ or ‘very important’. They rated their students at levels lower than the ones students did. Students were rated poor at the following subskills of writing: reports, memos; agendas, notices; instruction booklets; user manuals; company brochures; letters and diaries and messages. Findings indicated that ESP teachers are required to help students learn all the subskills of writing so that they can communicate in the target situations effectively.  

scholarly journals School Improvement by Addressing Bullying: Α Case Study in Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
A. Ioannis
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
School Community ◽  
First Year ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Weak Points

<p style="text-align: justify;">The main purpose of this study case is to investigate the contribution of the school community to the improvement of the school. In that context, a two-phase research was conducted. In the first phase, the self-evaluation process was implemented during the first year of the research with the participation of the school community. An overall picture of the school was created, with its strong and weak points reflected in the school's final self-evaluation report. Upon the completion of the school self-evaluation process the school community decided on the implementation of actions in order to reduce a number of dysfunctional behaviors, such as bullying incidents that occurred in the school on the part of some students. The school actions and the relevant results constituted the second phase of the research work. The results showed that some of the dysfunctional behaviors were found to be decreased to a statistically significant level after action was taken by the school community.</p>

scholarly journals A NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH TO ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) BASED SYLLABUS DESIGN IN BANGLADESH VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (BVTE)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Md Abdul Rauf
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Vocational And Technical Education ◽  
Assessment Approach

Abstract: This paper describes the initial phase of a needs analysis which is developed in the context of Bangladesh Vocational and Technical Education (BVTE) with the aim to identify the needs of a target group of learners and introduce English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course design. Although the compulsory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses have been used at various programs of BVTE since 1996, they were not based on any systemic Needs Analysis nor have they been subjected to any evaluation. The paper also aims to conducts a Needs Analysis to obtain data which will be used to develop a meaningful, useful and beneficial, common core ESP programme for Bangladesh Vocational and Technical Board (BVTB) students. This process takes into account the needs of the various stakeholders involved including the policy makers, decision-makers, subject and language teachers and prospective employers. It mainly will make use of Hutchinson and Waters’ (1987) Learning-centred approach, Holliday and Nunan’s (1988) Needs Analysis description for conducting the Needs Analysis and specifying the content for a common-core ESP course. A mix method is adopted with questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, classroom observation and document study being the main data gathering tools, in order to ensure triangulation of data.

ESP corpus design: compilation of the Veterinary Nursing Medical Chart Corpus and the Veterinary Nursing Wordlist

Corpora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Yukiko Ohashi ◽  
Noriaki Katagiri ◽  
Katsutoshi Oka ◽  
Michiko Hanada
Keyword(s):  
Word List ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Regular Expressions ◽  
Annotation Scheme ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
As Species ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
General Service

This paper reports on two research results: ( 1) designing an English for Specific Purposes (esp) corpus architecture complete with annotations structured by regular expressions; and ( 2) a case study to test the design to cater for creating a specific vocabulary list using the compiled corpus. The first half of this study involved designing a precisely structured esp corpus from 190 veterinary medical charts with a hierarchy of the data. The data hierarchy in the corpus consists of document types, outline elements and inline elements, such as species and breed. Perl scripts extracted the data attached to veterinary-specific categories, and the extraction led to creating wordlists. The second part of the research tested the corpus mode, creating a list of commonly observed lexical items in veterinary medicine. The coverage rate of the wordlists by General Service List (gsl) and Academic Word List (awl) was tested, with the result that 66.4 percent of all lexical items appeared in gsl and awl, whereas 33.7 percent appeared in none of those lists. The corpus compilation procedures as well as the annotation scheme introduced in this study enable the compilation of specific corpora with explicit annotations, allowing teachers to have access to data required for creating esp classroom materials.

Varied Responses to Human-Induced Seismicity in the City of Azle, Texas

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sarmistha R. Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Induced Seismicity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Prior History ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
The Status

Fracking has helped to usher in an era of energy abundance in the United States. This advanced drilling procedure has helped the nation to attain the status of the largest producer of crude oil and natural gas in the world, but some of its negative externalities, such as human-induced seismicity, can no longer be ignored. The occurrence of earthquakes in communities located at proximity to disposal wells with no prior history of seismicity has shocked residents and have caused damages to properties. It has evoked individuals’ resentment against the practice of injection of fracking’s wastewater under pressure into underground disposal wells. Though the oil and gas companies have denied the existence of a link between such a practice and earthquakes and the local and state governments have delayed their responses to the unforeseen seismic events, the issue has gained in prominence among researchers, affected community residents, and the media. This case study has offered a glimpse into the varied responses of stakeholders to human-induced seismicity in a small city in the state of Texas. It is evident from this case study that although individuals’ complaints and protests from a small community may not be successful in bringing about statewide changes in regulatory policies on disposal of fracking’s wastewater, they can add to the public pressure on the state government to do something to address the problem in a state that supports fracking.

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