Content-based instruction (CBI), distinguished by its dual commitment to languageand
content-learning objectives, has been translated into practice in diverse ways to meet the …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for
Specific Purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual cases and practices to …

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic
settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving …

ESP genre research has generated numerous descriptions and explanations of discipline-
specific genre exemplars and has produced various pedagogical proposals. However, what …

This article considers the use of popular science articles in teaching scientific literacy.
Comparing the discourse features of popular science with research article and textbook …

This chapter focuses on research on second language acquisition (SLA) in elementary
schools. Although the discussion centers primarily on English language acquisition as it …

Perhaps because of the rapid expansion of English for science and technology (EST) in the
last 50 years, science and technology were an early focus for English for specific purposes …

This study investigated the impact of content-based language instruction (CBLI) on EFL
young learners' motivated behaviours, namely attention, engagement, and eager …

This paper reports the findings of a study of undergraduate student use of, and attitudes
toward, textbooks and other assigned reading. More than 1200 students of various subjects …