The Teaching English to meet the Needs of Business Education in Hong Kong project,for instance,was acomprehensive survey carried out over a number of years at the end of the 1990s to collect information from several key stakeholder groups,researchers from five different universities worked on the project, and a range of different methodologies and information from specialist informants was included (Bhatia and candlin 2001;Chew 2005;Jackson 2005).