Abstract Taking notes while simultaneously listening to academic content in a second language is daunting task for many students. While doing so, the note-taker faced with number of choices, including when, where, and how take notes. Choices that students make are related overall format system as well record specific pieces information. The option translanguaging, or making use their multilingu...

Abstract Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium instruction, as well those in Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related likely to occur frequently academic texts, and speech consists a reasonable proportion occurring sequences words. Yet no intervention studies have explored single words collo...

The present study sought to investigate the effect of explicit instruction of lexical bundles (LBs) on the development of Iranian English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students’ writing quality and also their receptive and productive knowledge of Lexical Bundles (LB). Assigned to two experimental and control groups, the eighty participants took pre- and post-tests of writing tasks and the recepti...

Abstract The increasing use of digital educational technologies in higher education (HE) means that the nature communication may be shifting. Assessments English for academic purposes (EAP) need to reconceptualized accordingly reflect new and complex ways which language is used HE. With a view inform EAP assessments, our study set out identify key trends related using scoping review literature....

This paper explores accounting lecturer perceptions of non-English speaking background (NESB) student writing. In particular, it identifies specific features of samples of writing characterised by the lecturers as “very good” and those characterised as “poor.” The paper reports the findings of an exploratory study in which three highly experienced accounting lecturers evaluated a small sample o...

Because of the large number post-secondary English for academic purposes (EAP) programs and varying ways they are structured, it can be difficult to identify how a particular program fits within overall landscape university education. To general trends across Canada, webpages 74 EAP at 50 public English-medium universities were examined key information related each program. Data analysis includ...

This paper reports the findings pertinent to motivational dynamics in learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which are a part of large-scale mixed-methods study. The study was aimed explore adaptation cohort Chinese tertiary students when transiting an English-as-Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) university from Chinese-medium schools China. Data sources include questionnaire survey and semi-s...