EALP textbooks and the challenges of legal English education
EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2023 Over the last thirty years English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has expanded, cutting across the domains of specialised discourse, and has shifted its focus to meet the needs of large numbers of non-native speaking students at the university level.
Giulia Adriana Pennisi
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ESP corpus construction: a plea for a needs-driven approach [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents the case for compiling small, manually-sampled corpora, rich in contextual information, for research, teaching and learning in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
Nesi, Hilary
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Engaging with quality via the CEM model: Enhancing the content and performance management of postgraduate in-sessional academic skills provision [PDF]
, 2017 This research contributes to practice in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) by demonstrating how business management approaches and tools can enhance the content and performance management of in-sessional academic skills provision.
Alexander, Olwyn +3 more
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Transferability of Academic English Skills to Discipline Courses:
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021 This study investigates student perceptions of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, offered in first year of undergraduate studies at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD).Specifically the study focuses on the transferability of academic English skills ...
Ipshita Hajra Sasmal +1 more
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Towards an EAP without borders: Developing knowledge, practitioners, and communities
International Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2021 This paper presents a proposal for the future development of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as a global academic field that involves pedagogy, theory, and research. The paper considers the future development of EAP in three areas: its knowledge base,
Ian Bruce
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Sympathy for the devil? A defence of EAP [PDF]
, 2018 The ability to communicate in English is now essential to academic success for many students and researchers. Not only has the language established a fairly firm grip in higher education, particularly in the lives of postgraduate students, but also in ...
Ammon +35 more
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Assessing EAP (English for Academic Purposes) [PDF]
, 2019 Traditionally, entry to English-medium tertiary-level degree programs has been conditional upon applicants demonstrating an appropriate level of proficiency on high currency ‘gatekeeping’ tests such as IELTS and TOEFL. However, there are questions concerning the suitability of such tests given that they do not serve to specifically assess applicants ...
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Exploring pre-service teachers’ beliefs about EAP instruction in China – A case study
International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2022 Despite English being a priority in China and extensive policy changes over the past decades, English language teaching and learning at Chinese tertiary institutions remains insufficient.
Lucas Kohnke, Di Zou, Ruofei Zhang
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Developing a Competency Model for EAP Teachers: Insights from Internationalization of Higher Education [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2021 The teachers' competencies in the process of internationalization of higher education (IHE) are of vital importance (Brandenburg & Federkeil, 2007; van der Werf, 2012).
Amir Zand-Moghadam +2 more
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Processfolio: uniting Academic Literacies and Critical Emancipatory Action Research for practitioner-led inquiry into EAP writing assessment [PDF]
, 2017 This paper reports on the design and implementation of an alternative form of writing assessment on a UK English for Academic Purposes (EAP) presessional course.
Bachman L. +26 more
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