ESP & EAP
A Corpus Investigation of the Third-Person Singular Simple Present Tense Suffix in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Academic Writing

Fahimeh Marefat; Tahereh Soleimani

Volume 12, Issue 1 , June 2023, , Pages 119-143

https://doi.org/10.22054/ilt.2023.71739.751

Abstract
  With the spread of English, the conception of English is currently changing into English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) worldwide. However, the form of English teaching and learning is still identified by reference to native-speaker norms. In response to the increasing use of ELF and an emergent need to describe ...  Read More

ESP & EAP
Online EAP Courses amid COVID-19: On the Effectiveness of the Vocabulary, Grammar, & Reading Comprehension Components

Masoud Azizi

Volume 9, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 219-244

https://doi.org/10.22054/ilt.2021.53174.511

Abstract
  The COVID-19 pandemic pushed all universities to offer all programs online, but not all instructors were prepared for such an abrupt transformation. Online education can be very challenging both to the instructors and the institutions and has several subtleties that make it quite different from the face-to-face ...  Read More

ESP & EAP
An Investigation into Iranian EAP Teachers’ Burnout and its Variations in Relation to Their Demographic and Organizational Characteristics

Ogholgol Nazari; Mahmood Reza Atai; Parviz Birjandi

Volume 9, Issue 1 , June 2020, , Pages 93-116

https://doi.org/10.22054/ilt.2019.44381.405

Abstract
  Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses is highly demanding for EAP teachers as they are faced with diverse pedagogical and administrative challenges in such courses. This study addressed the level of burnout among EAP teachers and variations in relation to their demographic and organizational ...  Read More

ESP & EAP
Exploring the English Language Needs of EAP Students of Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran: A Triangulated Approach

Amir Zand-Moghadam; Hossein Meihami; Farhad Ghiasvand

Volume 7, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 135-164

https://doi.org/10.22054/ilt.2019.47351.434

Abstract
  Given the fact that few studies have investigated the English language needs of EAP students in Iran, the present study was an attempt to analyze the needs of Iranian EAP learners of Humanities and Social Sciences. To this end, 114 EAP learners at different educational levels (BA, MA, and PhD) and with ...  Read More

ESP & EAP
The Contribution of General High-Frequency, Core-Academic, and Academic-Technical Words to ESP Reading Comprehension

Ali Derakhshan; Ali Malmir

Volume 6, Issue 2 , December 2017, , Pages 291-318

https://doi.org/10.22054/ilt.2019.45081.412

Abstract
  Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading ...  Read More