Shi Jie

• 工程师 at 中海油

Research abstract is a text of foremost importance to students of science and engineering. However, explicit teaching of it tends to be missing in EGP and EGAP curricula of general Japanese English education. This paper reports the evaluation of abstracts written by 3 rd -year students in an undergraduate ESP course at a Japanese university of scie...

Researchers must constantly produce academic publications to promote their contributions and findings. The Research Article (RA) genre consists of sub-genres based on the typical IMRAD (Introduction, Method, Result and Discussion) structure that is commonly used for research in science and engineering. Researchers still find difficulties in learnin...

Science and technology students require the specialized skill of making poster and the explicit teaching of which is lacking in the curricula of general Japanese English tertiary education. This paper considers posters as an expanded form of abstracts and reports teaching of posters to 20 third-year students of an undergraduate ESP course at a Japa...

This study reports an investigation on the qualitative data of Japanese graduate students' evaluation on peers' academic presentation in English which is designed to be part of a collaborative learning project. A total of 772 peer comments was extracted from 265 peer evaluation on 10 group presentations as the dataset of this investigation. Results...

EST (English for Science and Technology) is an important area of ESP in Japan. The success of EST courses for science and technology/engineering disciplines is partially dependent on the choices of teaching materials. As shown in previous research done by the same presenters of this study in ICAMechs 2014, the quantity of teaching materials for low...

In research publications, peer review is an essential step in process of research article (RA) evaluation for publication by independent scientists. Reviewers are obligated to conduct the review objectively and provide with appropriate criticisms supported by proper evidence and adequate comments in confidence. The comments serve the purpose of inf...

Linguistic competences are of foremost importance to students in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) programs where they receive training in areas such as vocabulary, sentence structure and rhetoric norms common to science engineering fields in order to function professionally in English in an increasingly international environment. To achieve this...

The appropriateness of teaching materials for ESP (English for Specific Purposes) courses is one of the most crucial aspects of ESP courses. However, ESP courses range from general ESP courses to highly technical ones depending on the needs of students as well as institutions. Some courses are heterogeneous classes with students of different discip...