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Dr.Vitaly Ashkinazi ashvital@gmail

English for Specific Purposes World. Dr.Vitaly Ashkinazi ashvital@gmail.com. ESP World. Online journal for ESP professionals English for Specific Purposes World, or ESP Word http://esp-world.info. ESP World. History Profile Readership geography Traffic sources Specialisms

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  1. English for Specific Purposes World Dr.Vitaly Ashkinaziashvital@gmail.com

  2. ESP World Online journal for ESP professionals English for Specific Purposes World, or ESP Word http://esp-world.info www.esp-world.info

  3. ESP World History Profile Readership geography Traffic sources Specialisms Varieties of English Journal presence on the WWW Themes Feedback www.esp-world.info

  4. ESP World “Various Purposes, Varied Approaches: Teaching of ESP in the 21st Century” Variety of ESP is the thing that is well reflected by the materials accumulated in the ESP World 8 years of its existence From 2002 – present International Readership and Authors www.esp-world.info

  5. ESP World Professional areas Business, Finance, Legislation, IT, Telecommunications, Engineering, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology, Social Sciences, Biotechnology, Tourism, Hotel and Catering Industry, etc. www.esp-world.info

  6. ESP World Materials: textbooks, articles, leaflets, Web sites. Students: adults and teenagers Institutions: universities, colleges, secondary schools. Language skills: writing, reading, listening, speaking ESP avatars: tourism letter writing, written business communication, public speaking skills, impromptu speaking etc. Skills: thinking, code-switching, the fifth skill – an ability to function fluently in two languages alternately, etc. www.esp-world.info

  7. ESP World ESP teachers Linguists Experts in specific subject areas. Avoidance or risk taking Face losing fear of ESP teacher A teacher can’t know everything! Be prepared! www.esp-world.info

  8. ESP World History History in an interesting subject and we have an article on history of ESP through English for Specific Purposes A HISTORY OF ESP THROUGH ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES. Martin Hewings. ESP World, Issue 3, Volume 1, December, 2002 www.esp-world.info

  9. ESP World History The idea of a web-based journal was first voiced at the turn of the centuries by Simon Winetroube, then ELT Projects' Officer at the British Council, Russia. It was later discussed at the 8th ESP Anti-conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 2001. www.esp-world.info

  10. ESP World History Most participants agreed that it could benefit the international ESP community, if we had an easily accessible electronic periodical with contributions and readership from various countries. www.esp-world.info

  11. ESP World History At the start the publication received support from English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme and the British Council, Russia. www.esp-world.info

  12. ESP World The journal publishes authors from any institution from all continents, without any restrictions concerning the area of research, student specialisms, etc. www.esp-world.info

  13. ESP World Guidelines for Authors • ESP World is a free periodical for teachers, teacher trainers and researchers. • The objective: to produce a site for ESP professionals to share their research and teaching practices with the international teaching community. • The target audience: ESP teachers. • The ESP Web-based Journal is a peer reviewed publication. • The journal provides the means for teachers to access web-resources. www.esp-world.info

  14. ESP World Requirements for Papers • Articles should be preferably in html-files or MS Word. There are no requirements as for the length of manuscripts yet. • Articles should be sent by e-mail as attachments. • Provide a brief bio statement, please. • Your photo is welcome. • The editor reserves the right to make changes in any manuscript. • The author will only be consulted if substantial changes are deemed necessary. • You should make sure that your full name, address and contact details are attached to your contributions. • No previously published papers should be submitted. • Papers should be sent to e-mail address ashvital@gmail.com www.esp-world.info

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  17. ESP World Democratic andTolerant • There are many academic journals that publish articles of wellknown scientists but ignore beginners or people who are just aboutto start their careers. Such people need a journal which is democratic andtolerant! • We strive to give space on the site to as many authors as possible without compromising the quality. www.esp-world.info

  18. ESP World Recognition “I was told that the article is not recognized in China, if it is only available at the site as an on-line article and not published as an journal article. If the article is not recognized in China, it would be useless.” www.esp-world.info

  19. ESP World Publishing most submissions Publishing most submissions and then having a (moderated!)forum for (intelligent!)discussion or amechanism through which one could e.g. get feedback and generate new ideas. www.esp-world.info

  20. ESP World Editors • India • Russia • Hungary • France • Bulgaria etc. www.esp-world.info

  21. ESP World Authors www.esp-world.info

  22. ESP World Ludmila Kuznetsova (Russia), Russian ESP project co-ordinator www.esp-world.info

  23. ESP World ISSN 1682-3257 Once the Journal was started, it was registered and got a unique ISSN, universally accepted within the print publishing world as a means of identifying the serials. Recorded in the ISSN Register, ISSN are the more simple way for finding and accessing electronic resources through the URL addresses included in the ISSN records. www.esp-world.info

  24. ESP World ESP World is indexed in Genamics JournalSeek – a categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. www.esp-world.info

  25. ESP World The list of our authors’ countries includes Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia,Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, UK, USA, etc. www.esp-world.info

  26. ESP World Readership The list of countries providing Journal’s readers is much longer than the list of the countries providing authors.Statistics for the journal’s site during a year period from July 10, 2008 till July 10, 2009. Visitors 39,605Visits 50,602Page views 122,310 www.esp-world.info

  27. ESP World Visitors Overview. June 12, 2007 - June 12, 2009 81,814 people visited this site 105,494 visits 81,814 absolute unique visitors 248,298 pageviews 2.35 average pageviews 00:02:45 time on site www.esp-world.info

  28. ESP World All Traffic Sources All traffic sources sent a total of 50,602 visitsSearch Engines 38,850.00 (76.63%)Referring Sites 6,155.00 (12.14%)Direct Traffic 5,685.00 (11.21%)Other 11 (0.02%) www.esp-world.info

  29. ESP World Jul 10, 2008 - Jul 10, 2009 Map Overlay www.esp-world.info

  30. Jul 10, 2008 - Jul 10, 2009 Map Overlay ESP World www.esp-world.info 50,602 visits came from 188 countries/territories

  31. Visitors Percentages ESP World www.esp-world.info 50,602 visits came from 188 countries/territories

  32. Philippines Phenomenon ESP World www.esp-world.info Teaching in English from the first year at school, hence many teachers. Huge English schools for international students from Asia with local teachers.

  33. ESP World Length of VisitJul 10, 2008 - Jul 10, 2009 www.esp-world.info Most visits lasted: 0-10 seconds Duration of visit (s) Visits with this duration % of all visits 0-10 37,144.00 73.26% 11-30 1,072.00 2.11% 31-60 1,438.00 2.84% 61-180 2,980.00 5.88% 181-600 3,914.00 7.72% 601-1,800 3,266.00 6.44% 1,801+ 887.00 1.75%

  34. ESP World Depth of VisitJul 10, 2008 - Jul 10, 2009 www.esp-world.info

  35. ESP World Specialisms Any English teaching that is not general is special or specific, whatsoever. Just to imagine the scope of ESP let’s name some of such domains: Business English, Legal English, Medical English, English for Tourism, English for Journalism, English for Academic Purposes, etc. www.esp-world.info

  36. ESP World Varieties of English English varieties are reflected in different names for specific teaching domains. www.esp-world.info

  37. ESP World English varieties names Title Google Yahoo Business English 3290000 12800000 General English 4320000 4200000 Professional English 566000 1500000 Legal English 291000 1090000 English as a Global Language 63900 812000 English for Academic Purposes 223000 689000 English for Specific Purposes 530000 568000 www.esp-world.info

  38. ESP World Most popular phrases among chosen ones are "General English” and “Business Language”. These data seem to confirm that the domain is divided into many subdomains that definitely do not have explicit borders and can contain information relevant for teachers seeking necessary data. www.esp-world.info

  39. ESP World Search results for "English for Specific Purposes” (Google and Yahoo) 3 journals with online presence English for Specific Purposes – Elsevier ESP World Asian ESP Journal Sites of Ron Chang Lee and Arlyn Freed, books, articles, and a link to IATEFL ESP SIG. www.esp-world.info

  40. ESP World Themes The process of ESP teaching-learning can be considered from different aspects and there are researches concerning perceptions of faculty, employer, and students in the journal. One of the keywords in teaching/learning is development that reflects in different areas, e.g. Teachers Development, Course developing Age of the students is one of important factors in the process as ESP is studied in secondary school, college, university etc. Different tools are used in ESP: dictation, SMS, corpora, music. Such aspects as Mother Tongue and Learning Strategies are discussed. www.esp-world.info

  41. ESP World Articles on teaching English for Engineering students include such aspects as vocabulary, critical thinking, courses, and testing, developing a set of competencies for teachers of English in engineering colleges, Language Skills, Reassessing the ESP Courses Offered to Engineering Students in Iran, Communication Skills, a course in English for students of engineering with emphasis on problem solving methods, making engineering students speak. www.esp-world.info

  42. ESP World EAP is represented by articles on bridging the gap between English for Academic and Occupational Purposes, reading strategies of Greek university students learning English in an academic context, ontological approach to the producent's authorship in academic writing, strategies employed by students learning foreign languages for academic purposes, a comparative study of L2 readers' performances on general purpose and academic purpose texts, developing academic competency for studies in English (the Malaysian ESL teachers' perspective), a critical analysis of the literature review section of graduate dissertations at the university of Botswana, collaborative learning in the EAP classroom: students' perceptions, EAP and communicative use of language, ESP/EAP classes for Sociology students: establishing learning priorities. www.esp-world.info

  43. ESP World Biology and Medicine Reading and speaking on Biology and Medicine with a special textbook Learning Strategies of English Medical Terminologies in the Students of Medicine Internet-based medical articles in EMP. www.esp-world.info

  44. ESP World Political Science English for Satirical Purposes: Humour, Culture and Language Learning at the Faculty of Political Science. www.esp-world.info

  45. ESP World Legal English Syntactic Discontinuity in the Language of UK and EU Legislation. www.esp-world.info

  46. ESP World Social Sciences Paragraph structure in social sciences: a cross-disciplinary study www.esp-world.info

  47. ESP World Problem Solving Methods A Course in English for Students of Engineering with Emphasis on Problem Solving Methods www.esp-world.info

  48. ESP World Lesson plan The man who became rich through a dream www.esp-world.info

  49. ESP World ESP & EGP On the Relationship between ESP & EGP www.esp-world.info

  50. ESP World Course design Learner participation in the design of English for Biotechnology www.esp-world.info

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