Podcasts as a resource for learning academic English: A lexical perspective

CY Liu - English for Specific Purposes, 2023 - Elsevier
As the demand for English for academic purposes (EAP) courses increases, efforts are
being made to identify pedagogically useful resources for them. Academic podcasts may be …

Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening

CY Liu - English for Specific Purposes, 2023 - Elsevier
Amid increasing demand for EAP courses, there is a pressing need to identify suitable
materials for EAP instruction. This study examines the suitability of TED-Ed animations for …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the use of academic vocabulary in first-year ESL undergraduates' writing: A corpus-driven study in Hong Kong

E Chung, A Wan - Assessing Writing, 2025 - Elsevier
A good command of academic vocabulary is important for academic success in higher
education. However, research has primarily focused on the receptive academic vocabulary …

A corpus-based study of vocabulary in massive open online courses (MOOCs)

CY Liu - English for Specific Purposes, 2023 - Elsevier
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide rich academic content to learners around
the world. However, understanding such content is challenging to second-language …

Teachers' receptive and productive vocabulary sizes in English-medium instruction

H Malmström, D Pecorari, M Warnby - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the growing popularity of English-medium instruction (EMI), the conditions for and
consequences of teaching and learning academic content through English are poorly …

Incidental vocabulary acquisition from listening to English teacher education lectures: A case study from Macau higher education

BL Reynolds, X Xie, QHP Pham - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Some proponents of higher education English as a medium of instruction (EMI) have
suggested listening to English lectures provides students the opportunity to incidentally …

Mastery of Listening and Reading Vocabulary Levels in Relation to CEFR: Insights into Student Admissions and English as a Medium of Instruction

Z Li, JZ Li, X Zhang, BL Reynolds - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
Prior to enrolling in an English as a medium of instruction (EMI) institution, students must
show an English proficiency level through meeting a benchmark on a standard English …

Words at first exposure: How EFL proficiency influences incidental and intentional vocabulary learning in an unfamiliar language

A Sasson, D Mor, R Schiff - Reading and Writing, 2025 - Springer
The study explores incidental and intentional vocabulary learning in first exposure setting
among high-proficiency (HP) and low-proficiency (LP) English-as-a-Foreign-Language …

ESL Pre-university Learners' Needs Analysis for Web-based English Academic Vocabulary Learning Resource

FAM Fisal, NEM Said - International Journal of Learning, Teaching and …, 2023 - ijlter.net
A needs analysis will assist ESL practitioners in designing instructional materials more
efficiently by filling in the gaps where language learning is lacking. By adapting Hutchinson …

The potentials for incidental vocabulary acquisition from listening to computer science academic lectures: a higher education corpus-based case study from Macau

BL Reynolds, X Xie, QHP Pham - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Universities in non-Anglophone countries are increasingly implementing
English as the medium of instruction (EMI) lectures. There seems to be an assumption that …