QUESTIONING EAP: A CRITIQUE OF THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES COURSES AT UNIVERSITY

Pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are meant to prepare international students their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in an English-speaking academic environment. Prospective university candidates whom is not the first language required complete a pre-sessional EAP course if IELTS score lower than admissions requirements. Even though, terms of requirement, lack proficiency only reason preventing from entering degree directly, they take rather General one, hence, directly addressing general proficiency. In this essay I question need impose such on students: its current shape necessary success at or it merely product neoliberalism higher education?