This study examines second language (L2) learners’ perceptions of their writing strategies on an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programme at a British university. The participants were 14 Chinese pre-undergraduate students who engaged in interviews and completed reflective journal entries. results the analyses indicate that after four weeks studying EAP course, believed they star...

Although theory and research on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioners have grown recently, there is little documented their emotions identities. This study explored the emotion of 12 Iranian EAP role in identity construction. Adopting a narrative inquiry methodology, examined practitioners’ across Zembylas’s (2002) three-dimensional framework teacher Data analyses revealed that whil...

In this paper I plan to explore the relationship between critical approaches to literacy and the selection of EAP reading texts, taking Australia’s colonial and post-colonial society as an example of a theme around which discussion of text selection will revolve. Drawing, for example, on the writings of Benesch (1993, 1996) and Pennycook (1989, 1994, 1997), I suggest that by reconceptualising t...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...