English for Specific Purposes

Papers
(The median citation count of English for Specific Purposes is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board38
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas36
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study35
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews24
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation24
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies24
Editorial Board23
Book Review23
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines23
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing19
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?17
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals17
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study16
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses16
Editorial Board16
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom15
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education14
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures14
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems14
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse14
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca13
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science13
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication13
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations13
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement13
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles13
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation12
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing12
A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department12
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course12
Corrigendum to “The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals” [English for Specific Purposes 79 (2025) 87–100]12
Editorial Board12
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary12
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria11
A practitioner’s commentary on Z. Zhang (2013) Business English students learning to write for international business: What do international business practitioners have to say about their texts?11
Commentary on Chan's (2019) investigation of the communication needs of Hong Kong business professionals: Significance for the field of ESP and further implications for research and practice11
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing11
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline10
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre10
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals10
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos10
Editorial Board10
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis10
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation10
Editorial Board10
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English9
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF9
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations9
Book Review8
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university8
Book Review8
Book review8
A researcher's commentary on Stephen Evans' “Just wanna give you guys a bit of an update": Insider perspectives on business presentations in Hong Kong (2013)8
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students7
Book Review7
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation7
Participation in global business meetings revisited7
Book Review7
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom7
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction7
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria7
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures6
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong6
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation6
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics6
Editorial Board6
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited6
Editorial Board6
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening6
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources6
Book Review5
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms5
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong5
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English5
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond5
Book Review5
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list5
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles5
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team5
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks4
Book Review4
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)4
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports4
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries4
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering4
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module4
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language4
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis3
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study3
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline3
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n3
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos3
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals3
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study3
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres3
Book Review3
Editorial Board3
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis3
Book Review3
Book Review3
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources2
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals2
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines2
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis2
Leveraging ESP teachers’ roles: EMI university teachers’ professional development in medical and healthcare fields2
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement2
Rhetorical distinctions: Comparing metadiscourse in essays by ChatGPT and students2
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality2
Book Review2
A corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis of the linguistic features of Aviation English2
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations2
An examination of the use of spoken interactional metadiscourse markers in EMI lectures from different disciplines2
Natural scientists’ perceptions of authorial voice in scientific writing: The influence of disciplinary expertise on revoicing processes2
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers2
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class2
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention2
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study2
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field2
Becoming a member of the business community2
English as a lingua franca? The limits of everyday English-language communication in Polish academia2
A study of language-related episodes in online English-medium instruction classes in high schools in South Korea2
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