T. Upton

This study describes the reading and test-taking strategies that test takers used on the `Reading' section of the LanguEdge Courseware (2002) materials developed to familiarize prospective respondents with the new TOEFL. The investigation focused on strategies used to respond to more traditional `single selection' multiple-choice formats (i.e., Basic Comprehension and Inferencing questions) and the new selected-response (multiple selection, drag-and-drop) Reading to Learn items. The latter were designed to simulate the academic skill of forming a comprehensive and coherent representation of an entire text, rather than focusing on discrete points in the text. Verbal report data were collected from 32 students, representing four language groups (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and `Other') doing the Reading section tasks from the LanguEdge Courseware materials. Students were randomly assigned to two of the six reading subtests, each consisting of a 600—700 word text with 12—13 ...

Swales (1985) has suggested that 1962 marks "the beginning of the story" of LSP. If that is the case, then we celebrate during 2012 the 50th anniversary of LSP as a field of applied linguistics. On the occasion of this golden anniversary, this article reflects on how the field of LSP has evolved over the past half century as it has matured and grown in significance. Broad observations are made about changes that have occurred in the areas of (1) needs analysis, (2) language analysis, and (3) materials and methods, as reflected by leading scholars in four different time periods: Halliday, Strevens and McIntosh in the 1960s, Strevens in the 1970s, Dudley-Evans and St. John in the 1990s, and Belcher in the 2000s. Two current areas of debate – specificity and power – are then described. The article concludes by commenting on likely trends and areas of importance in LSP in the decade ahead.

The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Introduction Grant proposals have been explored as a distinct genre of academic writing. Myers (1990), in fact, has described grant writing ...