Site Group
Site Group's Latest Posts
Volume 12 Issue 3 December 2016
In this edition of The Asian ESP Journal, we are happy to present another varied set of studies in the Asian context. At The Asian ESP Journal, we are keen to publish well-researched studies that make a difference. This may be in the local context but it is also very important that a study has some resonance beyond the local context that is translatable to other setting.
Volume 12 Issue 2 September 2016
This Special Issue contains six selected papers from the conference, which were refereed according to the journal’s standard. The contributors are from a wide range of geo-linguistic locations, including Abu Dhabi (Roger Nunn, Caroline Brandt, and Tanju Deveci,), China (Huiqin Zhang & Lily Ye, Liming Deng & Jing Liu), Taiwan (Yu-ju Hung & Robert L. Good), and Malaysia (Shamala Paramasivam & Muhamad Izzat bin Rahim).
Volume 12 Issue 1 June 2016
Welcome to our June 2016 issue of The Asian ESP Journal. We are happy to see a very varied range of authors from a variety of Asian locations presenting studies that are ‘translatable’ to other contexts.
Volume 11 Issue 2 December 2015
Download Full PDF Roger Nunn & Colin Toms. Foreword Pi-Hsia Lü, D. Victoria Rau & Yu-Fang Wang. Secretarial Needs in a Bicultural Academic Office Yan Wang. A Hypermodal Analysis of “Care” in Healthcare Communication Ian Done D. Ramos. Error, Register, Grammatical-Rhetorical, and Genre Analyses on Nursing Students’ Case Studies and Thesis Proposals Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi, […]
Volume 11 Issue 1 June 2015
Download Full PDF Roger Nunn & Colin Toms. Foreword Bixi Jin. Exploring the development of lexical verbs in academic writing: a multiple-case study of three Chinese novice researchers Tanju Deveci. Communication students’ use of lexis in a writing examination Seyyed Mohammad Alavi & Reza Dashtestani. English for academic purposes (EAP) instructors’ perspectives on the integration […]
Volume 10 Issue 2 December 2014
Download Full PDF Roger Nunn & Colin Toms. Foreword Haiying Feng. Discourse, Knowledge, and Identity: An Autoethnography of Seeking Research Grants in China Laura Ibrayeva & Carol Fuller. The L2 Motivational Self System among Kazakh learners of LSP Immaculée Harushimana. A qualitative study of Proficiency Dilemmas of Korean Registered Nurses (RN) in a BSN Program […]
2014 Special Issue of The Asian ESP Journal (Greeting the New Age of ESP: Practice, Innovation, and Vision, International Conference on Applied Foreign Languages)
Full Journal PDF Foreword Winnie Cheng and Amy O. Y. Suen Multimodal analysis of hotel homepages: A comparison of hotel websites across different star categories Ruo-Wan Lei A case study of Taiwanese college teachers group exploring narrative pedagogy Susie Xin Sui Local grammars of phraseologies of movement in financial English. Mei-jung Wang and Lou-hon Sun […]
Volume 10 Issue 1 June 2014
Download Full PDF Foreword A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Higher Education Students‘ Perspectives on the Use of E-books for Learning Academic English Revisiting the ESP Teachers‘ Perception of Resilience: A Call for More Professional Development of Teachers Motivation in the ESP Classroom: The Case of Algerian Biomedical Engineering students Research Article Introductions in Applied Linguistics: A […]
The Development of Use of Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing: A Case Study with Two Chinese Students
March 2014 Full PDF Version Author Xie Nanyue Abstract In view of the complexity of reporting and the central role it plays in academic writing, the present study focuses on the most clear signal of reporting, i.e., reporting verbs. Specifically, a case study was carried out with two Chinese students during their studies at […]
Preparation and Implementation of a Genre-Based Approach in a Non-Academic EFL Classroom
March 2014 Full PDF Version Title Preparation and Implementation of a Genre-Based Approach in a Non-Academic EFL Classroom Author Matthew Davies Bio Matthew Davies is an adjunct lecturer at The University of Shimane and is a principal teacher at Excellent English School in Shimane, Japan. He has taught English for more than 9 years and […]
