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A Mixed-Methods Study Into the Discipline-Specific Effect of Critical EAP on Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Although critical English for academic purposes (CEAP) has grown theoretically, more research is needed to explore it in more depth. This sequential mixed-methods study primarily aimed to examine whether the CEAP and traditional English for academic ...
Tahereh Movahhedi +2 more
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This study aimed at investigating the English language needs of teaching assistants at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. The study focused on identifying the teaching assistants’ purposes for learning English, and discovering the most important skills ...
Abuelgasim Sabah Elsaid Mohammed +1 more
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English for Specific Purposes and Academic Literacies: Eclecticism in academic writing pedagogy [PDF]
Academic Literacies and English for Specific Purposes perspectives on the teaching of academic writing tend to be positioned as dichotomous and ideologically incompatible.
Kaufhold, Kathrin, McGrath, Lisa
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The paper discusses the impact of English for Specific Academic Purposes teaching methodology on developing in-house materials for the course of English for Social Sciences taught at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
Lubov V. Zavarykina
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Learner autonomy and awareness through distance collaborative group work in English for Academic Purposes [PDF]
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40956-6_13Learner autonomy is considered to be both an important skill and attitude of learners, which involves responsibility for and control of the learning process.
Arnó Macià, Elisabet
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Creating and Using an Anthology for English for Academic Purposes [PDF]
We created an anthology for English for academic purposes (EAP), which includes a collection of chapters from different textbooks typically used in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Berardo, Marcellino +1 more
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Google Translate in Academic Writing Courses?
The aim of this study was to explore the possible benefits of using Google Translate (GT) at various tertiary English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course levels, i.e., to see if the use of GT affects the quantity and quality of student writing.
Sara Kol +2 more
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In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on the interpersonal function of metadiscourse features in academic texts. This means that research on writing in academic contexts began to focus on the rhetorical features, such as interactional ...
Boitumelo T. Ramoroka
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“The past is the future with the lights on”: Reflections on AELFE’s 20th birthday [PDF]
In this paper I offer a brief personal reflection on what strikes me as the main features of this period, focusing on increased specialization, the coming to dominance of genre and corpus analyses, the opening up of teaching paradigms related to social ...
Ken Hyland
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Academic literacies twenty years on: a community-sourced literature review [PDF]
In 1998, the paper ‘Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach’ by Mary Lea and Brian Street reinvigorated debate concerning ‘what it means to be academically literate’ (1998, p.158).
Hilsdon, John +2 more
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