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Inspired by our experience as an associate assistant of English with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology Dumitru Staniloae, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, this paper purports to account for the gaps that need filling in a less developed branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), namely theological English. After overviewing the status of the discipline, we intend to make suggestions towards the improvement of the Orthodox content for the purpose of developing students’ p...

This paper draws on our work as associate assistant with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its extension in Balti, The Republic of Moldova. During the Business English seminars, among other activities, we integrated translation exercises from English to Romanian and vice versa to develop our intermediate students’ productive and receptive skills in a communicative language teaching environment. Our main aim was to dist...