The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly

Critical thinking is essential in higher education and professionally. This project arose from concerns about a perceived lack of critical thinking development in Chinese students in a joint Australia-China Business diploma program taught in China in English. Using the Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (Chinese Version) as an exploratory tool, the majority of the 8 joint program stud…

The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly

Definitions of ‘holism’ in applied language studies need to remain broad enough to allow for true epistemological diversity and reject prematurely coherent impermeable systems that do not reflect the present state of knowledge in our field. In Part 1 of this two-part paper, I focus on definitional issues arguing that the atomistic parts of any whole are related within a complex, but flu…

The Asian EFL Journal

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of English-medium instruction in the context of Taiwanese tertiary EFL and content area education. Due to the prevalence of globalization, English has gradually become the only language of instruction in academia, especially in Asia such as Taiwan. It is thus believed that this English only policy would greatly benefit students’ L2 …

The Asian ESP Journal

Edisi

vol.10 issue 2

ISBN/ISSN

2206-0979

Deskripsi Fisik

279 hlm,;20cm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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The Asian ESP Journal

This study is set in the globalising context of international companies relocating their businesses to Vietnam in increasing numbers. Drawing on qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews, observations and post-observation discussions, it explores how a sample of fourteen information technology graduates communicate in English at the workplace and to what extent the Engl…

The Asian ESP Journal

Situated in the Chinese EFL context, this study was conducted to explore the developmental trajectories of the lexical verbs employed in academic writing of three Chinese novice science researchers. Three corpora were used to keep track of the use of lexical verbs over time in terms of the richness in variation and sophistication. Semi-structured interviews were used to interpret the trajectori…

The Asian ESP Journal

This study explored the communication needs of those in secretarial positions in a bicultural academic office. Needs analysis was employed, using a combination of ethnographic and autobiographical methods to investigate insider views, with the ultimate goal of determining how to teach secretarial English. The research site was the English department of a university in Central Taiwan. The data c…

The Asian ESP Journal

This paper is a Case Report describing a triangulation of 1) action research, 2) the application of my own previous field research, and 3) direct argument, undertaken in a university in Japan in order to inculcate a more informed and accepting attitude towards the implementation of ESP programmes among both peers and administrators. I undertook these actions in response to initial administrativ…

The Asian ESP Journal

In this paper, we outline and illustrate ten principles of critical reasoning and argumentation within a project-based learning approach to teaching academic literacy. We discuss project-based learning from a practical and theoretical perspective, outlining our view that some kind of holistic approach is needed to provide adequate coverage of the broad range of skills and knowledge that contrib…

The Asian ESP Journal

The paper reports on the two multimodal research studies of hotel homepages. The first study entitled ‘Hotel websites as corporate communication’ combines the approaches and methodologies of visual grammar and critical genre analysis in the study of the homepages of twelve five-star hotels in Hong Kong, focusing on language, visual images and hyperlinks; the professional and social practice…