... of second-
language speakers studying academic subjects in English around the world. By the
early 1990s, for example, foreign nationals outnumbered American students
studying science and engineering ... increasing the demand for EAP
provision.
Task A3.1
➤ Reflect on this issue for a moment. Is the growth of English as the international
language of academic communication a force for expanding participation ... consider the reasons for
making this choice. How might each view influence how EAP teachers carry
out their role?
Study skills or academic literacy?
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ENGLISHFORACADEMIC PURPOSES
Routledge...
... used to supplement an EnglishforAcademic Purposes /Study Skills course,
at foundation, undergraduate or postgraduate level. It may either be used in class or be assigned forstudy on
a self-access ... possible.
For each of the sentences here, choose the best word from a, b or c.
4e – Choose the best word
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Unit Three
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1. Before giving a presentation, always ______________________...
... change the form of the word:
3a Fill in the gaps
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Don't forget ... verbs you may need to change the form of the
word:
Unit One
4
1a Fill in the gaps
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arbitrary ... ending for each of the sentence extracts below from the list underneath:
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5c Finish the sentence
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at foundation, undergraduate or postgraduate level. It may either be used in class or be assigned forstudy on
a self-access ... verbs you may need to change the form of the
word:
Unit One
4
1a Fill in the gaps
â A&C Black Publishers Ltd 2007. For reference see Easier English Dictionary for Students (978 07475 6624 3).
arbitrary ... change the form
or in some cases the grammatical class of the word:
5d Word substitution
Unit Five
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to use this book, you will need to obtain a good English- English dictionary, such as
the
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Students
(ISBN:
978 07475...
... also hoped that the study will make some suggestions for teachers and
learners to improve the teaching and learning Englishfor EEE at VTTTU.
2. Aims of the study
The study aims to examine ... Methods of the study
With the aims of finding out the area of difficulties in reading Englishfor EEE at
VTTTU, this study adopts a case study approach. To achieve the aim of the study, the survey ... of the study
No one can deny the importance of reading Englishfor EEE. It is obvious that both
students and teachers often encounter difficulties when teaching and learning Englishfor EEE....
... duration of
studying English and acquisition of English listening. As mentioned, the aim of
the research is to find out the acquisition students‟ listening skill and the
motivation forlistening ... identified 5 types of listening:
Discriminative Listening
Comprehensive Listening
Therapeutic Listening
Critical Listening and
Appreciative Listening.
Discriminative listening is where ... and listening. Compared with other skills, listening is
considered as the most difficult skill for students learning English, specially
the first year English major students. The reason for...
... and continuous
agreement in number
forming continuous present tenses
forming simple past tenses
forming continuous past tenses
forming simple future tenses
forming continuous future tenses
This ... venue for this year’s sales convention,
scheduled for July.
Please provide the undersigned with full information about the
convention facilities which your hotel offers, and the charges
for them. ... venue for this year’s sales convention,
scheduled for July. Please provide the undersigned with full
information about the convention facilities which your hotel
offers, and the charges for them....
... reasons for your study of English and the ways
you have been learning it
The reasons for your study of English and the ways
you have been learning it
It cannot be denied that today English ... it up in the
“Every man’s English Pronouncing Dictionary” by Daniel
Jones, a very precious dictionary forEnglish beginners.
Being aware of the preeminence of the English language
in every ... practice speaking English regularly with my friends and my
teachers. “Practice makes perfect”. I should frequently
listen to native English speakers through videos, television...
... such as
English for Specific Purposes, EnglishforAcademic Purposes and Discourse
Studies.
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, PhD University of Valencia, is an Associate
Professor of English ... consultation for science, engineering, and
business professionals in the workplace:
ã Englishfor specific purposes (academic and professional purposes)
ã Teaching English as a foreign language ... communication and discourse
analysis. He has published his work in the Journal of EnglishforAcademic
Purposes, the Englishfor Specific Purposes journal, and the International
Review of Applied Linguistics...
... are to become effective writers foracademic and professional
purposes.
References
Adam, C. and N. Artemeva (2002) Writing instruction in Englishfor
Academic Purposes (EAP) classes: ... discussion section,
Journal of EnglishforAcademic Purposes (5): 4-18.
Elander J., K. Harrington, L. Norton, H. Robinson and P. Reddy (2006)
Complex skills and academic writing: A review of ... of English L1 writing may be
an analogue of the empirical methodology which marks Anglo-American
academic culture, and that this aspect of writing is therefore rather more
problematic for...
... abstracts in the narrative
and hard sciences, Journal of EnglishforAcademic Purposes (2):
327-341.
Swales, J.M. (1990) Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research
Settings, Cambridge: Cambridge ... tasks,
we believe, may be appropriate for longer courses, for all-day or part-day
workshops or seminars, and/or as reference materials for independent study.
The materials have been extracted ... Approaching the essay genre:
A study in comparative pedagogy
Ruth Breeze
A study was designed to compare two methodologies for teaching essay writing in
English to Spanish university...
... R.R. (1997) EnglishforAcademic Purposes. A Guide and Resource
Book for Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Krzanowski, M. (1998) Materials design in teaching EnglishforAcademic ... English in the 1990s,
English for Specific Purposes (15) 1: 3-18.
Stoller, F.L., B. Horn, W. Grabe and M.S. Robinson (2006) Evaluative
review in materials development, Journal of Englishfor ...
(Glendinning, E.H. and J. McEwan
(1993) Oxford Englishfor
Electronics. Oxford: OUP, page 27)
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and in certain areas such as Business English; and 2) Herbert followed a
corpus-based...