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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board46
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas33
Editorial Board31
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews30
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines28
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies25
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation24
Book Review24
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing22
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?21
Academic vocabulary in an EAP course: Opportunities for incidental learning from printed teaching materials developed in-house21
Applying local grammars to the diachronic investigation of discourse acts in academic writing: The case of exemplification in Linguistics research articles21
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals21
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study20
Editorial Board20
Exploring the socio-contextual nature of workplace writing: Towards preparing learners for the complexities of English L2 writing in the workplace19
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom18
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science16
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education15
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse15
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts14
Aligning perceptions with reality: Lebanese EMI instructor perceptions of students’ writing proficiency14
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems14
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations14
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures14
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement13
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary13
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca13
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles13
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication12
Book Review12
Editorial Board12
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation11
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing11
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
A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department11
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis10
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]10
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing10
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria10
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?10
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing10
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos10
Book Review10
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals9
Editorial Board9
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation9
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF9
Editorial Board9
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline9
Book Review9
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre9
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations8
The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills8
Book Review8
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students8
Book review8
Book Review7
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation7
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university7
Book Review7
Book Review7
Participation in global business meetings revisited7
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)7
Book Review6
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria6
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong6
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics6
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom6
Editorial Board6
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction6
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation6
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures6
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources5
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond5
Editorial Board5
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening5
Book Review5
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited5
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English5
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong4
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports4
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks4
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list4
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms4
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)4
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team4
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles4
Book Review4
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering4
Selling research in RA discussion sections through English and Spanish: An intercultural rhetoric approach4
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries3
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n3
Book Review3
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module3
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study3
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language3
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline3
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis3
Book Review3
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres3
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos3
Book Review2
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study2
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis2
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines2
Book Review2
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals2
Engaging with the reader in research articles in English: Variation across disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds2
Editorial Board2
Book Review2
Editorial Board2
Book Review2
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