This chapter reviews the history of English for specific purpose's (ESP) research in four
sections: The Early Years (1962–1981), The Recent Past (1981–1990), The Modern Era …

Over the years, substantial shifts in theory, belief, and practice have occurred in the teaching
of language, specifically vocabulary, grammar, or their combination in lexicogrammatical …

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the
level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic …

Discourse analysis is interested, among other things, in the organizational structures of texts,
how conversations are managed, and how different modes of communication combine with …

This popular, comprehensive theory-to-practice text helps teachers understand the task of
writing, L2 writers, the different pedagogical models used in current composition teaching …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By
treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies …

This study examines how novice foreign language (FL) writers develop their genre
awareness, linguistic knowledge, and writing competence in a genre-based writing course …

This study contributes to the emerging line of research on the linguistic realizations of
rhetorical functions in disciplinary writing by presenting a list of phrase-frames identified from …

Citation is one of the most prominent features of academic writing through which academic
writers both exhibit the breadth of their scholarship in a specific research area and subtly …