The globalized nature of modern society has generated a number of pressures that impact internationally on countries' policies and practices of science education. Among these pressures are key issues of health and environment confronting global science, global economic control through multi-national capitalism, comparative and competitive…

Describes a theme-based language course for science students at a South African university. Suggests that acquisition of language for science and technology should be regarded as acquisition of a range of literacies of science rather than acquisition of skills or grammatical features. (Author/VWL)

The faculty of chemistry at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, developed an English-for-specific-purposes syllabus for students after eliciting faculty members' opinions about teaching methods and instructional materials, subsequently balancing institutional and faculty members' needs and motivations for the program. (CB)