English for Specific Purposes

Papers
(The median citation count of English for Specific Purposes is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Self-efficacy and english public speaking performance: A mixed method approach38
Mapping the field of English for specific purposes (1980–2018): A co-citation analysis36
Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP): A review of language teachers’ pedagogical initiatives34
Matching phrase-frames to rhetorical moves in social science research article introductions25
Promoting discipline-specific genre competence with corpus-based genre analysis activities24
Engineering students' perceptions of the role of ESP courses in internationalized universities22
Delivering relevance: The emergence of ESP as a discipline21
Choosing specialized vocabulary to teach with data-driven learning: An example from civil engineering19
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing18
Engaging with the reader in research articles in English: Variation across disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds17
How large a vocabulary do Chinese computer science undergraduates need to read English-medium specialist textbooks?17
An analysis of the use of cognitive discourse functions in English-medium history teaching at university17
The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills16
Hype in reports of clinical research: The authors' perspectives15
Analyzing the functions of lexical bundles in undergraduate academic lectures for pedagogical use15
A multi-level contrastive analysis of promotional strategies in specialised discourse15
Managing evaluation: Criticism in two academic review genres14
Research article title content and form in high-ranked international clinical medicine journals14
A multi-dimensional analysis of the Management's Discussion and Analysis narratives in Chinese and American corporate annual reports14
BELF expert users: Making understanding visible in internal BELF meetings through the use of nonverbal communication strategies13
Applying local grammars to the diachronic investigation of discourse acts in academic writing: The case of exemplification in Linguistics research articles13
English for specific playfulness? How doctoral students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics manipulate genre13
A periphery inside a semi-periphery: The uneven participation of Brazilian scholars in the international community12
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis11
Variation in interpersonal relations in manuscript reviews with different recommendations10
Exploring request emails in English for business purposes: A move analysis10
Academic vocabulary in an EAP course: Opportunities for incidental learning from printed teaching materials developed in-house10
An exploratory analysis of source integration in post-secondary L1 and L2 source-based writing10
A corpus-based list of commonly used English medical morphemes for students learning English for specific purposes10
Challenges in academic writing: Perspectives of Engineering faculty and L2 postgraduate research students9
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations9
Academic conflict in Applied Linguistics research article discussions: The case of native and non-native writers9
Selling research in RA discussion sections through English and Spanish: An intercultural rhetoric approach9
Aligning perceptions with reality: Lebanese EMI instructor perceptions of students’ writing proficiency8
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures8
Bundle-driven move analysis: Sentence initial lexical bundles in PhD abstracts8
What's going on in the chat flow? A move analysis of e-commerce customer service webchat exchange8
Helping university students discover their workplace communication needs: An eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to facilitating on-the-job learning of workplace communication8
A unique blend of interpersonal and transactional strategies in English email responses to customer complaints in a B2C setting: A move analysis7
Parameters of variation in the use of words in empirical research writing7
“The datasets do not agree”: Negation in research abstracts7
Digital genres: What they are, what they do, and why we need to better understand them7
Exploring the socio-contextual nature of workplace writing: Towards preparing learners for the complexities of English L2 writing in the workplace7
Modes and intersemiotic cohesion in student presentations performed online: An SF-informed multimodal discourse analysis7
Paradigmatic variation in hedging and boosting: A comparative study of discussions in narrative inquiry and grounded theory research6
Identifying spoken technical legal vocabulary in a law school classroom6
A genre-based exploration of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in advertorial discourse6
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n6
Know your roles: Alleviating the academic-professional tension in the case analysis genre6
Development of component analysis to support a research-based curriculum for writing engineering research articles6
Natural scientists’ perceptions of authorial voice in scientific writing: The influence of disciplinary expertise on revoicing processes6
Undergraduate L2 students’ performance when evaluating historical sources for reliability6
Temporal change in dissertation macrostructures5
A corpus-aided study of stance adverbs in judicial opinions and the implications for English for Legal Purposes instruction5
Pragmatic force modifiers in English-medium master's thesis defenses in Taiwan universities5
Shell-noun use in disciplinary student writing: A multifaceted analysis of problem and way in third-year undergraduate writing across three disciplines5
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis5
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing5
Approaches to simplifying academic texts in English: English teachers’ views and practices5
A study of language-related episodes in online English-medium instruction classes in high schools in South Korea5
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines5
A text analysis and gatekeepers’ perspectives of a promotional genre: Understanding the rhetoric of Fulbright grant statements5
From task-based needs analysis to curriculum evaluation: Putting methodological innovations to the test in an English for academic purposes program4
Artist’s statements, ‘how to guides’ and the conceptualisation of creative practice4
A comparative study of the linguistic manifestations of intertextuality in corporate leaders’ messages of global corporations in the US and China4
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals4
Using English as a lingua franca to engage with investors: An analysis of Italian and Japanese companies' investor relations communication policies4
From analysis to pedagogy: Developing ESP materials for the Welcome Address in Sri Lanka4
ESP serial publications before The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes: Recollections and reflections of an old-timer4
Persuasion strategies for demonstrating topic significance in reports of randomised controlled trials4
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline4
The creation and evaluation of a grammar pattern list for the most frequent academic verbs4
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement3
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science3
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement3
English as a lingua franca? The limits of everyday English-language communication in Polish academia3
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources3
Towards a communication-focused ESP course for nursing students in building partnership with patients: A needs analysis3
Affordances for language learning in a call centre3
Gendering in open access research articles: The role of epicene pronouns3
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list3
“The more important findings are sustained”: A diachronic perspective on the genre of the retraction notice3
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline3
‘According to…’: The impact of language background and writing expertise on textual priming patterns of multi-word sequences in academic writing3
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos3
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing2
‘Teaching the writer to fish so they can fish for the rest of their lives’: Lecturer, English language tutor, and student views on the educative role of proofreading2
Podcasts as a resource for learning academic English: A lexical perspective2
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF2
Building a second-language writing aid for specific purposes: Promotional cheese descriptions2
Book Review2
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies2
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria2
Disciplinary and gender-based variations: A frame-based analysis of interest markers in research articles2
The creation and application of a large-scale corpus-based academic multi-word unit list2
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong2
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study2
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening2
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom2
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse2
Evaluative prosody and semantic preference: Extending the analysis of recurrent multiword sequences2
ESP in the Pacific Rim2
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria2
High use of direct questions and relative absence of promotional intention in Japanese peer-reviewed research article introductions compared to their English counterparts1
Researcher commentary on Warren (2013): The prevalence and forms of intertextuality1
Toward an empirical understanding of formality: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions1
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals1
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing1
Book Review1
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics1
Commentary on Flowerdew, J., & Wan, A. (2010). The linguistic and the contextual in applied genre analysis: The case of the company audit report. English for Specific Purposes, 29(2), 78-931
Participation in global business meetings revisited1
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres1
A practitioner’s commentary on Stephen Evans’ “Just wanna give you guys a bit of an update”: Insider perspectives on business presentations in Hong Kong (2013)1
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers1
If it had been conducted with a larger database…: A comparison of If-constructions in Chinese L2 learners' theses and published research articles1
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class1
Becoming a reviewer: Insights from the student and editorial boards of ESPJ1
“I can't come to the words”: Effects of including military flavour when testing the oral proficiency of Norwegian joint terminal attack controllers1
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts1
Figure legends of scientific research articles: Rhetorical moves and phrase frames1
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom1
Book Review1
Read between the lines: Evaluative patterns and paces in engineering research article introductions1
Mexican economics professors’ publication: Three case studies1
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond1
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews1
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca1
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis1
Grammatical metaphor across disciplines: Variation, frequency, and dispersion1
Topicalizing language in CLIL teaching at technical colleges: A micro-level analysis of language-related episodes (LREs)1
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