The importance of notetaking for English academic purposes (EAP) students and teachers is growing due to a rapid increase in the number universities offering as medium instruction (EMI) courses around world (e.g. [Teng, H. C. 2011. “Exploring Note-taking Strategies EFL Listenerst.” Procedia - Social Behavioral Sciences 15: 480–484.]). While there have been several studies on second language (L2...

Abstract: Lexical bundles, as building blocks of coherent discourse, have been the subject of much research in the last two decades. While many of such studies have been mainly concerned with  exploring  variations  in  the  use  of  these  word  sequences  across  different  registers  and disciplines, very few have addressed the use of some particular groups of lexical bundles within some gen...

This paper reports on the assessment procedure of students’ academic essays at an undergraduate course in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) a business-oriented university during school year 2020/21. Following social constructivism paradigm (e.g. Vygotsky, 1962), employed peer (PA) and teacher (TA) was aimed improving their essay writing performance. The further degree correspondence between g...

The plurality of nation in this title foregrounds the challenge teaching a geopolitical entity whose survival depends on building emotional ties belonging. These can be problematic diverse societies which collective identities compete for recognition. In Canada, nationhood tied to language and culture is claimed by French-speaking Quebecers; it also invoked many Western-Canadian politicians exp...

Revision is a fundamental part of the writing process and particularly important in production high-quality academic writing. This study an exploratory examination changes revision behavior, as measured by keystroke logging software, at beginning (T1) end (T2) one-month intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course on n = 39 undergraduate postgraduate students. Bayes Factors (BFs) are ut...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

Since its introduction to EAP theory in the 1980s, the concept of genre has proven to be a rigorous theoretical construct for a deeperunderstanding of the nature of academic discourse. However, the inherent potential of this concept as a means of classifying and categorizing academic texts has also given rise to what we have called “the misconception of homogeneity”. Criticizing this misconcept...