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ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and contentEdited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 4] 2008
► pp. 97–115
Edited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 4] 2008
► pp. 97–115
4. Curriculum change as a result of the introduction of the masters program: Designing and implementing a European online thesis training course
LOTT (Leiden Online Thesis Training) is an online course for writing Masters theses at the English department of the University of Leiden (Netherlands). LOTT was a response to curriculum change following the Treaty of Bologna. A description is given of the goals of the course, its development and the role of existing (mainly American) online writing courses and research on thesis writing. An overview is also given of academic writing theory and the principles of genre analysis according to which LOTT was designed. Finally, a discussion is provided of the problems, and their solutions, of online writing courses. It is concluded that while the course is a success, difficulties continue, mainly as a result of unfamiliarity with online courses.
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Arnó-Macià, Elisabet
2014. Information Technology and Languages for Specific Purposes in the EHEA: Options and Challenges for the Knowledge Society. In Languages for Specific Purposes in the Digital Era [Educational Linguistics, 19], ► pp. 3 ff. 
ARNÓ–MACIÀ, ELISABET
2012. The Role of Technology in Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes Courses. The Modern Language Journal 96:s1 ► pp. 89 ff.
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