English as the International Language of Research  

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Swales, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 16 no. 1 (Jun. 1985), page 1-7.
Topik: International Language of Research
Fulltext: RELC 1985,VOL.16,NO.1 hal 1-7.pdf (388.23KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The annual world output of research papers and scholarly articles is large and increasing, and there is little doubt that English is the medium of publication for the majority of such papers. However, closer analyses of the available data reveal rather few papers from nonnative speakers, especially from the Third World. This imbalance suggests that English is only the International Language of Research in a receptive sense. It needs to become so in a productive sense as well if Third World investment in doctoral scholarship etc. is to remain justified. Unfortunately, the ESP profession has concentrated on undergraduate teaching programmes and rather neglected the teaching of Research English. However, there are now welcome signs of change, which may therefore aid a process of making English a truly international language rather than one over-restricted in terms of publication sources to the Northern Hemisphere.

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