Asian Research on English for Specific Purposes

Dr Youzhong Sun is a Professor and Vice President of Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research areas focus on English education, intercultural communication and American studies. Dr Liwen Li is a Professor and Director of the Office for Undergraduate Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her academic interests include second language writing, English for specific purposes, intercultural communication, and American studies. Dr Hong Cai is an Associate Professor and Dean of the School of English for Specific Purposes at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His teaching and research interests include race, ethnicity, immigration, western civilization, and English language teaching.

1. Getting Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals: Advice for Beginning Academic Authors.- 2. Using an Outside-Expert, Conversational ESP Stimulus to Motivate Chinese ELL Students.- 3. Developing Four English-in-the-Discipline Courses for University Studies in Hong Kong.- 4. Exploratory Practice in an Intensive English-Language Bridging Course for Foreign Nursing Students: Thinking in English.- 5. “Revenge of the Schwa”: A Metaphor for Teaching English Word Stress in Academic Vocabulary.- 6. A Comparative Study of Attitude Resources in English and Chinese Business News Based on Appraisal Theory.- 7. Course Design of EPC from the Perspective of Discursive Competences: A Case in Chongqing University.- 8. Rethinking the Significance of Ma Jianzhong's “Proposal on Establishing a Translation Academy” from the Perspective of ESP Translation Teaching in the 21st Century.- 9. Communication in a Web of Relationship: Evaluation of an ESP Programme with a Blended Teaching Mode.- 10. Exploring the Identity Formation of Chinese ESP Learners.- 11. The Problems Novice Chinese Academic Writers Face in Achieving Complexity in Academic Writing – a Corpus-Driven Approach Focused on Nominal Expressions with Of-Phrases as Post-Modifiers.- 12. The Construction of ESP Teacher Professional Community in Universities.- 13. On the Teaching Reform of ESP Course: Hotel English.- 14. Non-English Major Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Business English Learning and Teaching and Curriculum Adaptation in a Chinese University.- 15. Final Paper as Portfolio: An Academic Writing Assessment for Incipient College Student Writers from Large Classes.- 16. Interaction and Collaboration in International Office’s Help Desk Setting.