Conveners
Theory and methodology of LSP research
- Olga Pašinska (University of Latvia (PhD student in Linguistics))
- Jevgenija Selivanova (University of Latvia)
The goal of the present study is to analyze issues of group presentation assessment in English for Business Management Course at the University of Latvia.
Groups provide opportunities that cannot be realized through individual learning situations. They provide expertise from the rest of the group not available to the solitary individual. The group is a place where individual views of...
The purpose of this presentation is to address the importance of needs analysis with mixed methods in LSP. Language educators and researchers argue that a lack of identifying students’ needs hinders effective language education in schools. This would be because teachers may not be well-prepared regarding the use of needs analysis in the educational context. Therefore, the purpose of the paper...
Testing languages for specific purposes concerns the area of language testing in which the test purpose, content and methods are derived from an analysis of a real life situation in which the learner is likely to use the language. There are two main attributes of LSP testing which distinguish it from general language testing: the authenticity of the task which should share the crucial features...
Language education practices have entered a new era abundant with technologically enhanced learning solutions which have become a prosperous supplement to the traditional classroom experience. In a multitude of e-solutions ESP educators are always in a search of tailorable solutions to meet the specialized requirements of their target audiences, a great number of which are in high demand of...
The presentation aims at eliciting insight into the results of ongoing research regarding evolving trends and attitudes towards online assessment of English for specific purposes. The focus pinpoints online as one of the most trending forms available during the global pandemic. The study was first initiated in 2019 in which its main target was to reveal the intriguing question of students’ and...
