SIGNIFICANCE OF CREATING A CUSTOM DIAGNOSTIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ MEDICAL SCHOOL

In the current trends of communication and globalization, the knowledge of vocabulary is of paramount importance. With a vocabulary package, people can read any texts and understand them. Additionally, it is easy to communicate when people have enough vocabulary. The present study is a class enquiry. It involved 30 students doing English for Specific Purposes at the University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economics, Business Administration option. Facing the challenge of getting students to effectively communicate in English and understand reading materials, the purpose of the study was to investigate into the role of vocabulary to the understanding of reading texts, speaking and writing activities. Data collection tools were individual evaluations, debates, a questionnaire and class observations. Findings revealed that vocabulary activities prior to reading provide students with many benefits. As students reported, vocabulary increased their understanding of the text and helps them exchange ideas and increase language skills while discussing vocabulary related exercises. Findings also indicated that the vocabulary activities helped students write in an effective way, applying new terms and writing freely. Therefore, it is recommended that vocabulary should be worked on thoroughly in order to foster reading comprehension, speaking and writing.

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Risk and Solution of English Language E-Textbook for Non-English Study Program Students

Loquen: English Studies Journal ◽

10.32678/loquen.v14i2.5085 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 93

Author(s):

Asti Gumartifa ◽

Sri Yuliani ◽

Sherly Marliasari

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Learning Processes ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Innovative Technology ◽

English Department ◽

Study Program ◽

Modern Approach ◽

Technology Learning ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

The University

Abstract: E-textbooks are also referred to as electronic books, printed downloads, or internet sources. A textbook is an ideal example of technology in active learning for university students. E-textbooks are becoming more great choice than paper textbooks. In several academic institutes at a campus like the University of Muhammadiyah Palembang, where every lecturer is allowed to have a personal laptop. Thus, it's critical to look into how e-textbooks are adopted and how they might alter students' learning processes. The purpose of this study is to see what the risks of learning are and how to optimize the solution for learning and using English e-textbook for non-English study program students. This research’s novelty provides solutions and even optimizations related to the existing advantages and disadvantages specifically faced by non-English department students in learning English through e-textbooks. The solutions and optimizations are discussed descriptively into the modern approach and innovative technology. Furthermore, this research is beneficial for students to learn English for specific purposes. Keywords: E-textbook, risk, helpful, technology, learning

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Developing Business English Students’ Metaphorical Competence in Foreign Language Learning Higher Education Contexts

ES Review Spanish Journal of English Studies ◽

10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.113-138 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 113

Author(s):

María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos ◽

María del Mar Sánchez Pérez

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

English Language ◽

Reading Skills ◽

Foreign Language Learning ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Business English ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

The University ◽

English Students

This article is aimed at showing the ways in which Business English teachers may be able to facilitate the use of metaphor for their students since it is a part of the lexicon which causes them the most difficulties. The inclusion of the study of metaphors in a specific English language programme can provide students with a useful tool to interpret vocabulary, improve reading skills and understand different cultural backgrounds. Our aim is to put forward a didactic proposal to be used in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programmes at a Master’s course currently taught at the University of Almería, Spain, in order to develop students’ metaphorical competence within the foreign language learning process.

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Online Assessment of English for Specific Purposes

10.5121/csit.2021.111426 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Renáta Nagy ◽

Dr. Vilmos Warta

Keyword(s):

Medical School ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Online Testing ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Vast Array ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Experimental Process ◽

The University ◽

Online Tests

The study is about the questions of online assessment of English for Specific Purposes. The focus is on online assessment as a possible future form of language testing which truly has a huge importance hence today’s situation around the globe. It can unquestionably be used as a perspective in a vast array of contents The study is innovative and its main aim is to uncover the intriguing questions and issues of online testing and to enlighten the candidates and professional assessors about the advantages and disadvantages of online testing. A thorough experimental process is currently being implemented involving a process that includes an online questionnaire completed by English and Hungarian students at the Medical School of the University of Pécs. Material and methods include already completed surveys, which will be followed by needs analysis and trial versions of online tests. These surveys do not only question future candidates but also assessors in order to find both perspectives of needs and wants. These include the aspects of tasks, content, skills, technology and others.

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Analisa Kebutuhan English for Specific Purpose untuk Pendidikan Vokasi

VOCATECH: Vocational Education and Technology Journal ◽

10.38038/vocatech.v1i0.9 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tanzir Masykar

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

English Language ◽

English Education ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

University Education ◽

Literature Study ◽

Need Analysis ◽

Teaching Content ◽

Education Needs ◽

The University

Abstrak— Mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris pada pendidikan vokasi merupakan mata kuliah umum (MKU) wajib. Berbeda dengan pendidikan di universitas, pendidikan vokasi menuntut konten pengajaran suatu mata kuliah dalam bentuk konten praktis. ESP, English for Sepcific Purpose adalah salah satu cabang ilmu pendidikan Bahasa Inggris yang dapat diterapkan dalam mengembangkan MKU Bahasa Inggris pada pendidikan vokasi. Studi pustaka ini menganalisis beberapa jurnal dan buku yang berkaitan dengan ESP dan mewawancarai dosen Bahasa Inggris pada tingkat universitas untuk menentukan materi Bahasa Inggris yang sesuai untuk pendidikan vokasi. Hasil kerangka need analysis (NA) Basturkmen dan Dudley-Evans, St John, & Saint John, dipaparkan dan diuji dengan kebutuhan pendidikan vokasi jurusan mesin [1, 2]. Hasil kajian pustaka dan Analisa kebutuhan menunjukkan perlu adanya kurikulum, silabus, dan aktivitas berbeda untuk setiap jurusan pada pendidikan vokasi. Silabus Bahasa Inggris umum di perguruan tinggi tidak dapat dipakai sepenuhnya untuk kebutuhan pendidikan vokasi. Kata kunci: Analisa Kebutuhan, English for Specific Purposes, Bahasa Inggris Umum, Pendidikan vokasi Abstract— English courses in vocational education are compulsory general courses (MKU). In contrast to university education, vocational education demands the teaching content of a course in the form of practical content. ESP, English for Specific Purpose is one branch of English education that can be applied in developing the English course in vocational education. This literature study analyzes a number of journals and books related to ESP and English language lecturer studies at the university level to determine appropriate English material for vocational education. The results of the Basturkmen and Dudley-Evans, St John, & Saint John's framework of need analysis are presented and tested with the vocational education needs of across three majors [1, 2]. The results of the literature review and need analysis indicate the need for different curriculum, syllabus, and activities for each department in vocational education. The general English syllabus in universities cannot be fully applied for vocational education needs. Keywords: Needs analysis, English for Specific Purposes, General English, Vocational Education

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Challenges of Grading in an ESP Course

European Journal of Language and Literature ◽

10.26417/ejls.v4i4.p28-30 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Iryna Didenko ◽

Nataliia Zhukova

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

English Language ◽

Initial Level ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Grading System ◽

Main Difficulty ◽

Language Competency ◽

Final Grades ◽

The University

This paper deals with the drawbacks of the existent grading system in the English for Specific Purposes course and the suggested solution to this problem. The main difficulty concerns the fact that in Ukraine the CEFR level is not mentioned in the transcript of the university diploma containing the list of the courses and their grades. This is the reason of impossibility to split students into groups according to their initial level of English language competency and give them an opportunity to develop at an appropriate pace and rate. Thus, we can not completely meet the needs of our students, although satisfying the learners’ needs is the key point in an ESP course. This discrepancy pushed us, ESP practitioners, to reconsider our approach to the grading system in an ESP course. We have suggested a system of level ratio that may be applied while calculating the final grades of the students. The introduction of this system may eliminate the outlined problem and enchance motivation of university students in an ESP classroom. In this paper we have described the mechanism of level ratio application, depicted the advantages of the suggested theory and outlined possible problems that can appear.

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APPLICATION OF THE LEARNING COMMUNITIES APPROACH TO TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes ◽

10.22190/jtesap1903283s ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 283

Author(s):

Nataliia Sukhachova ◽

Valentina Voskoboinyk

Keyword(s):

Learning Communities ◽

English Language ◽

Cooperative Education ◽

Real Life ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Teaching English ◽

Language Competency ◽

Professional Field ◽

The University ◽

English Students

The paper focuses on the peculiarities of application of the Learning Communities to teaching English for Specific Purposes at the university. Combining two disciplines (a practical English language course and a business-oriented one) over a semester, around interdisciplinary themes requires intentional restructuring of students’ time, credit, and learning experiences to build community, changing of the curriculum and fostering more explicit connections among students, between students and their teachers, teachers and administration, and among disciplines. The experience of using the Learning Communities approach has demonstrated the positive results for all involved. Studying real-life professional situations through case studies and problem-based tasks through collaboration in English, students benefit from both developing their English language competency and mastering the material on the disciplines related to their future professional field. Teachers experience a more coherent and enriched teaching environment. The university gets the opportunity to develop models for students’ internships and cooperative education that are designed for the needs of local businesses and provide outreach to the community.

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Genre-Based Approach to the Analysis of Introductions in Doctoral Seminars of the Department of English, Unizik, Awka

UJAH Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities ◽

10.4314/ujah.v21i2.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Chinwe Ezeifeka

Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

English Language ◽

Academic Culture ◽

English For Academic Purposes ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

University Of Southern California ◽

Generic Structure ◽

Research Article ◽

Language And Literature ◽

The University

This paper analyses selected research article introductions of doctoral seminars in the Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, to determine how these academic writings follow specific formats characteristic of such genres. Specifically the work looks at the staged cognitive organisation of the selected samples in line with the requisite schematic or generic structure postulated in Bhatia (1993) and adopted by the University of Southern California (USC). Every genre is characterized by culture-bound unique structuring and communicative purposes that give it generic coherence. Research article introduction is an academic sub-genre with specified conventions characterising genres from the academic culture/community. A total of eighteen samples of research introductions were analysed, the aim being to determine whether the cognitive move structures in the samples conform with, or depart from, the conventionalized patterns of this academic sub-genre and how the pattern used in the samples enabled or militated against the writers’ achievement of the desired communicative purposes. A critical reading of doctoral seminars in the Department shows lack of knowledge of the unique formatting of introductions, making this work to be anchored on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) with particular emphasis on English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The baseline of the findings is to discover the present proficiency of these group of learners, enlighten budding academics on the move structure of article introductions in order to achieve generic coherence as well as target proficiency in that sub-genre of academic writing.

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Using authentic materials for students of tourism in Slovenia: English language acquisition for students of the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor

ExELL ◽

10.1515/exell-2016-0005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 104-115

Author(s):

Jasna Potočnik Topler

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Real Life ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

English For Specific Purposes ◽

Authentic Materials ◽

English Language Acquisition ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Classroom Materials ◽

The University ◽

Grammatical Structures

Abstract The article examines the process of teaching English for specific purposes at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor, Slovenia using coursebooks and authentic supplementary materials. The survey has shown that the students of the Faculty of Tourism prefer supplementary authentic materials to coursebooks because they find them sufficiently interesting or challenging. Specially designed classroom materials that are put into the Moodle by the teacher also offer opportunities for various activities in lesson planning for teaching, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Another important aspect of supplementary materials is that they facilitate the teacher’s creativity. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to using only coursebooks or only specially prepared classroom materials, and both - coursebooks and supplementary materials - should be used only after careful consideration. Although authentic materials may contain complex grammatical structures and difficult vocabulary, they bring real-life situations into classrooms, and students therefore find them very motivating, the survey has shown.

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The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1636285 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 05 (03) ◽

pp. 142-146

Author(s):

A. Kent ◽

P. J. Vinken

Keyword(s):

Information Needs ◽

English Language ◽

Medical Information ◽

Biomedical Literature ◽

Information Storage ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

University Of Pittsburgh ◽

The World ◽

The University ◽

Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

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