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  2. English for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    ESP is taught in many universities of the world. Many professional associations of teachers of English (e.g., TESOL and IATEFL) have ESP sections. Much attention is devoted to ESP course design. [4] [5] ESP teaching has much in common with English as a foreign or second language and English for academic purposes (EAP).

  3. Language for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    For example, English native speaking nurses who work in hospitals with a high percentage patient whose native language is Spanish might have to study Spanish for the very specific purpose of communication between nurses and patients. Students are encouraged to take active roles in their own learning and question what they have been taught.

  4. Extrasensory perception - Wikipedia

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    Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.

  5. Ganzfeld experiment - Wikipedia

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    A ganzfeld experiment (from the German words for "entire" and "field") is an assessment used by parapsychologists that they contend can test for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy. In these experiments, a "sender" attempts to mentally transmit an image to a "receiver" who is in a state of sensory deprivation.

  6. English for Specific Purposes World - Wikipedia

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    English for Specific Purposes World (ESP World, ISSN 1682-3257) is an international online journal containing papers concerning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). There are around four issues published a year. There are 62 issues of the journal online. The Journal is listed in , LINGUIST List, NewJour, Google Scholar.

  7. Extrasensory Perception (book) - Wikipedia

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    Extrasensory Perception is a 1934 book written by parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, which discusses his research work at Duke University. Extrasensory perception is the ability to acquire information shielded from the senses, and the book was "of such a scope and of such promise as to revolutionize psychical research and to make its title literally a household phrase".

  8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  9. Syntagma (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a syntagma is an elementary constituent segment within a text. [citation needed] Such a segment can be a phoneme, a word, a grammatical phrase, a sentence, or an event within a larger narrative structure, depending on the level of analysis.