Contents
Contributors xxvii
Series editors’ preface xxix
Preface xxxi
PART I ISSUES IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES 1
Introduction 3
1 Issues in EAP: A preliminary perspective 8
John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock
2 Language use, language planning and EAP 25
Chris Kennedy
3 EAP－related linguistic research: An intellectual history 42
John M. Swales
4 Linguistic research and EAP pedagogy 55
Brian Paltridge
5 International scientific English: The language of research scientists around the world 71
Alistair Wood
6 Discipline specificity and EAP 84
Caroline Clapham
7 World Englishes: Issues in and from academic writing assessment 101
Liz Hamp－Lyons and Bonnie Wenxia Zhang
8 Addressing issues of power and difference in ESL academic writing 117
Suresh Canagarajah
9 ‘I’ll go with the group’: Rethinking ‘discourse community’ in EAP 132
Sue Starfield
10 EAP assessment: Issues, models, and outcomes 148
Geoff Brindley and Steven Ross
PART II THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES CURRICULUM 167
Introduction 169
11 The EAP curriculum: Issues, methods, and challenges 177
John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock
12 Twenty years of needs analyses: Reflections on a personal journey 195
George Braine
13 The curriculum renewal process in English for academic purposes programmes 208
Fredricka L. Stoller
14 Team－teaching in EAP: Changes and adaptations in the Birmingham approach 225
Tony Dudley－Evans
15 Does the emperor have no clothes? A re－examination of grammar in content－based instruction 239
Donna M. Brinton and Christine A. Holten
16 The specialised vocabulary of English for academic purposes 252
Averil Coxhead and Paul Nation
17 Language learning strategies and EAP proficiency: Teacher views, student views, and test results 268
Matthew Peacock
18 Issues in EAP test development: What one institution and its history tell us 286
Fred Davidson and Yeonsuk Cho
19 Teaching writing for academic purposes 298
Dana R. Ferris
20 Reading academic English： Carrying learners across the lexical threshold 315
Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst
21 Incorporating reading into EAP writing courses 330
Alan Hirvela
22 The development of EAP oral discussion ability 347
Peter Robinson, Gregory Strong, Jennifer Whittle, and Shuichi Nobe
23 Second language lecture comprehension research in naturalistic controlled conditions 360
Steve Tauroza
24 Designing tasks for developing study competence and study skills in English 375
Alan Waters and Mary Waters
25 Promoting EAP learner autonomy in a second language university context 390
Tony Lynch
References 404
Index 460