Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).
• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP • Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars • Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English • Considers perspectives on ESP research
Introduction to Research in Education; 8th Edition
Introduction to Research in education provides comprehensive explanation of educational research. This book has explanations of most research methods in education. It includes the approaches of research, steps of how to assign a research from formulating the problems untill how to analyze the data. Each kind of research is exemplified by several example and brief explanation. In general, this book is very useful for the students who preparing a research as fundamentals material of research.
This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. Il introduces readersgraduate students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega first elucidate the value and practice of synthesis, and they challenge all members of the research community to adopt a "synthetic ethic.
This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.
This book encourages scientists to think differently about the use of scientific evidence in policy making. This issue investigates why scientific evidence is important to policy making and argues that an extensive body of research on knowledge utilization has not led to any widely accepted explanation of what it means to use science in public policy. The book identifies the gaps in our understanding and develops a framework for a new field of research to fill those gaps.
