COVID-19 and the shift to online teaching necessitated a change in approach for English Academic Purposes (EAP) teachers preparing their students university studies. This study explored how EAP instructors coped with adapted provision emergency remote teaching. The was conducted at an English-medium Hong Kong qualitative case adopted. results revealed two overarching themes of opportunity chall...

the present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local iranian and international journals in english for specific purposes, english for general purposes, and discourse analysis. overall, 120 published articles were selected from the established journals representing the above subdisciplines. each subdiscipline was represented by 20 local and 2...

Abstract This paper aims to discuss how experienced English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teachers’ beliefs about academic writing have affected their instruction. The data comprised two semi-structured interviews conducted with three Brazilian EAP teachers working at a large university language center. Their course programs were also collected. analysis of the six revealed that instructors´ stru...

In this paper the authors suggest that teaching students to use freely available text-profiling software represents an innovative strategy and possible solution to needs of non-native English speakers who leave school without an adequate English vocabulary. First the research basis is described for a new text-profiler designed to help students acquire the high-frequency vocabulary they need in ...

This qualitative case study focuses on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioner accounts of student academic language development at a UK university. EAP practitioners are often uniquely well placed as experts in the complexities and choices which vary according to discipline, epistemological stance, genre. However, their expertise is misunderstood or misrepresented. contributes debates...

Genre analysis as an area of great concern in recent decades, involves the observation of linguistic features used by a determined discourse community. The research article (RA) is one of the most widely researched genres in academic writing which is realized through some rhetorical moves and discursive steps to achieve a communicative purpose. This study aimed at proposing a model of generic p...

This academic essay is an assessed coursework in Teaching English Professional and Academic settings (TEPAS) for taught postgraduate School of Languages, Linguistics, Queen Mary University London (2018). In Purposes (EAP) or Specific (ESP) settings, teaching reading writing integration considered to encourage ‘authenticity’. To discuss above statements a critical way, this first introduces the ...

With the advent of the distinctive characterization of academic languagein the past thirty years, there has been atremendous move in the ESL/EFL world towardsformulatinginstructional techniques compatible with the very nature of these skills. As a part of this effort, this studyinvestigated the role of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach in achieving these ends. The study e...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are currently well-established university programs. These courses are run independently by English Language Teaching (ELT) instructors and content instructors without any collaboration. However, ELT instructors and content instructors do not receive the same level of collegiality and social support from the organizations and students. This paper probe...