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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 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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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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Negotiating the "critical" in a Canadian English for Academic Purposes program
2011This 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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TESOL Journal, 2016
Critical thinking (CT) is usually taught as a list of practical skills for students to master. In this article, the authors argue that CT instruction should go beyond skills to engage students with issues of identifying their own biases and understanding multiple perspectives on issues. This explicit attention to one's own bias is essential for dealing
Jay Tanaka, Betsy Gilliland
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Critical thinking (CT) is usually taught as a list of practical skills for students to master. In this article, the authors argue that CT instruction should go beyond skills to engage students with issues of identifying their own biases and understanding multiple perspectives on issues. This explicit attention to one's own bias is essential for dealing
Jay Tanaka, Betsy Gilliland
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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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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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2023
This study aimed to develop empirical and theoretical understandings of the relationship between critical media literacy and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language learning contexts. EAP courses are for students from non-English speaking backgrounds to prepare them to meet the more complex course demands such as University courses. There is a pre-
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This study aimed to develop empirical and theoretical understandings of the relationship between critical media literacy and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language learning contexts. EAP courses are for students from non-English speaking backgrounds to prepare them to meet the more complex course demands such as University courses. There is a pre-
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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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Criticality and Integrated Learning Tasks in the English for Academic Purposes Classroom
The benefits to using integrated skills tasks in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom have been well documented and in the specific of field of English for Academic Purposes such tasks are regularly employed due to the highly valued authenticity they offer to teaching practitioners.openaire +1 more source