Adrar university civil engineer’s handicap vis-a-vis English academic writing

الملخص EN

Since English has become the worldwide lingua franca of science and technology, university teachers and researchers found themselves bound to look for a way to cope with this situation especially in a country like Algeria in which French is predominantly the language of higher education and scientific research as well.

this paper sheds some light on the language handicap which civil engineering researchers encounter when publishing in English.

the aim of this paper is to draw attention to the relationship between inner and outer circles of English users11.

the ultimate goal is to get a thorough needs analysis to develop an ESP course for future engineers.

triangulation of methods was ensured during data gathering.

samples of researchers’ manuscripts were analysed during the writing process.