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Critical English for Academic Purposes
2018With the emergence of critical English language teaching (CELT) in the past 25 years, primarily in the English for academic purposes domain, there have been significant implications for English language learning. ELT approaches have drawn on major premises and assumptions in second language acquisition research from the past several decades ...
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TESOL Journal, 2013
“As Kroll (1993), among others, has pointed out, reading has traditionally been seen as a skill to be taught separately from writing, as well as something students are somehow expected to already know about when they reach the writing course. Teaching reading in a writing course may seem like an odd idea, if not an entirely unnecessary one. It may also
William Grabe, Cui Zhang
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“As Kroll (1993), among others, has pointed out, reading has traditionally been seen as a skill to be taught separately from writing, as well as something students are somehow expected to already know about when they reach the writing course. Teaching reading in a writing course may seem like an odd idea, if not an entirely unnecessary one. It may also
William Grabe, Cui Zhang
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Critical English for academic purposes: Building on learner, teacher, and program strengths
Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2013Abstract Using a critical EAP framework, the current needs analysis or rights analysis study ( Benesch, 2001a ), examines an EAP Writing Program at an urban Hispanic-serving college in the northeast U.S. Analysis of student-writing portfolios, student, professor, and EAP Writing-Center survey and interview data showed that restructuring institutional
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English for Academic Purposes as a Critical Pedagogy
2018More than a teaching approach, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) refers to a branch of applied linguistics that consists of a significant body of research into the “effective teaching and assessment approaches, methods of analysis of the academic language needs of students, analysis of the linguistic and discoursal structures of academic texts, and ...
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Critical pedagogy in English for Academic Purposes and the possibility for ‘tactics’ of resistance
Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2007This article traces the evolution of critical pedagogy and its central tenets, and how these have moved through language teaching into the realm of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and are manifest in current debates in the field. Tracing these debates opens the discussion to the applicability of critical pedagogy to EAP and consideration of the ...
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Negotiating the "critical" in a Canadian English for Academic Purposes program
2007This thesis represents a one-year critical ethnographic case study of an academic literacy program located within a major Canadian university. Pacific University's English for Academic Purposes program distinguished itself from "traditional" English as a Second Language programs in its innovative pedagogical approach.
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Self-Positioning and Critical Thinking: Demotivated Students in English for Academic Purposes
Language Teaching Research QuarterlyWith burgeoning attention to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), increasing emphasis has been placed on learners’ Critical Thinking (CT), their experiences of demotivation, and how these factors interact within EAP writing framework. At the same time, learners' self-positioning in the EAP context has emerged as a process variable influencing their ...
Miao, Chenrui, Shi, Jingyao
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On the Teaching of Critical Thinking in English for Academic Purposes
2016The teaching of critical thinking is seen as a key component of many English for Academic Purposes programmes. There is a degree of uncertainty and confusion, however, first about how critical thinking is best understood, and then how our conceptualizations of it might translate into coherent programmes for students.
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International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
This paper describes a content-based English for academic purposes (EAP) course, ‘Language and Public Life’, and its major assignment, a research essay that critiques media coverage of a current event or social issue. The pedagogical context in which this assignment is realised underpins the forms of critical inquiry expected.
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This paper describes a content-based English for academic purposes (EAP) course, ‘Language and Public Life’, and its major assignment, a research essay that critiques media coverage of a current event or social issue. The pedagogical context in which this assignment is realised underpins the forms of critical inquiry expected.
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Critical English for Academic Purposes
2011This presentation is based on my research into English-language learners’ motivation and teachers’ perceptions of their learners’ motivation (Harvey 2010). In this work, and through my continuing doctoral research, I am developing an understanding of English-language learning motivation as inextricably linked to imagination, identity and participation.
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