... Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Higher education Academic English Communicative tasks EAP TEFL ESP Research in second or foreign language (L2) teaching has focused on the communicative features of language in higher education. It has been...

...Milad Sheikhbanooie; Majid Farahian Purpose Since reflectivity has a crucial role in education, it has attracted researchers’ attention in the last decades. As such, the present study aimed to construct and validate a questionnaire to assess the barriers to reflective practices of Iranian ESP...

... that the EAP courses be oriented toward English for specific purposes (ESP), whereas almost half of the postgraduates preferred that the EAP classes be geared toward general English. Originality/value Researchers have so far analyzed the language needs of students of a number of academic disciplines...

...Soraya García-Sánchez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse some effective e-tools and interactive tasks to enhance language acquisition and competence building in today’s English for specific purposes (ESP) students in higher education programmes. Design/methodology/approach...