Overlapping of ESP/EAP and content courses revisited

[ES] This paper deals with some key issues in a controversial topic, that of the existing overlapping between ESP/EAP courses and simultaneously-run content courses. Some examples are provided and analyzed to be aware of the need of ESP/EAP practitioners to have a fairly deep knowledge of those technical matters they have to deal with in order to be as genuinely communicative as possible. Later on, a list of principles for designing successful ESP/EAP courses is presented and justified. After putting into practice a communicative approach founded on those principles for a period of five years, the opinion of those students who have taken two ESP/EAP courses was gathered –an ad hoc questionnaire was developed for the purpose–. data are analyzed to hypothesize the long-run correlation between applying the above mentioned principles and the positive opinion of students on their teachers when those principles are applied at university level.

Dimensionamento e modellazione di impianti per riscaldamento invernale di un edificio civile mediante il software ESP-r

Gli impianti di riscaldamento sono costituiti dalle seguenti parti: sistema di produzione (pompa di calore, caldaia, pannelli solari, gruppi frigoriferi, ecc), sistema di distribuzione (tubazioni necessarie a trasportare il fluido vettore ai terminali di utilizzo), sistema di erogazione (i radiatori, oppure i ventilconvettori, i pannelli radianti a pavimento, a parete, a soffitto, etc.), sistema di regolazione, sistema di accumulo. L’impianto da inserire deve bilanciare le dispersioni termiche dell’edificio, che dipendono essenzialmente dalla temperatura interna desiderata di 20°C, dalla temperatura esterna, dall’isolamento e dal volume da riscaldare. L’obiettivo della tesi è analizzare il risultato raggiunto dal punto di vista del benessere ambientale e del consumo energetico trascurando l’aspetto della fattibilità dell’impianto e del costo che quest’ultimo può avere.

ESP in Spain: goals, achievements and prospects

This paper aims to describe the development of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as specialised language study and research at tertiary level in Spain over the past twenty years. The year 1992 is chosen as a starting point because AELFE, the Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, was founded in Madrid at the time. As more members from other countries have joined in, this Association has served as an academic landmark for the development of ESP within the umbrella of applied linguistics. ESP has reflected the social changes, educational shifts, linguistic trends, and technological innovations involved in academic and professional contexts. The evolution of the specialised language practitioner’s scenarios and communicative situations has turned ESP into a lively and stimulating action, though not lacking in controversy, e.g., a general increase in the ESP teacher’s workload. Different lines of work and research have been followed from the inception of AELFE until the implementation of the Bologna agreement in our universities. The examination of such variables is conducted in the light of some quantitative and qualitative findings.