James Mackay’s scientific contributions

... English language learning has become one of the top priorities in many countries in the process of globalization. In the corporate world, employers and managers need people who are not only experts in their respective areas but who can also communicate with different groups of people, therefore, requiring a high level of English competency (Mckay, 2003). The challenges of the present-day globalized world have led to significant changes in the academic curricula of the world's universities. ...

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IMPACT OF GASOLINE PRICES ON INTENTION TO SWITCH TO RENEWABLE ENERGY VEHICLES: EVIDENCE FROM A SURVEY OF VIETNAMESE STUDENTS

... A collection of such short, simplified texts, with familiar disciplinary content and visual supports, was also reported to provide a stepping stone to authentic technical texts (those not specially designed to contain previously-learnt language and equally problematic for teachers and learners), and when argumentative genres (text-types except descriptions, instructions and narratives), embodying abstract relationships, were omitted as well, they could further reduce processing difficulties (Coxhead et al., 2020;Hyland, 2006;Nunan, 2013;Tomlinson, 2001). Hutchinson and Waters (2010) also adapted their ME materials on the grounds that the teachers lacked the realia and lower-intermediate students much of the general technical language to interpret the specific language in their mostly descriptive texts. ...

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EXPLORING THE FLEXIBILITY OF ESP MATERIALS THROUGH THE IPO MODEL: CORPUS AND CONSUMER INSIGHTS FROM THE TURKISH EFL CONTEXT