... 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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... change the form of the word:
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word:
Unit One
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arbitrary ... ending for each of the sentence extracts below from the list underneath:
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arbitrary ... change the form
or in some cases the grammatical class of the word:
5d Word substitution
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... 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....
... list.
ã Use parallel form to achieve balanced writing.
Use parallel form to improve the clarity of your writing. To make your
writing parallel, use the same grammatical form for all items in a ... person
who aims to produce short eective documents within the work envi-
ronment of the early 21st century.
It is not simply a guide to business writing. It does not focus on writing
rituals, nor does it compare dierent uses of the English language for
writing purposes. There is no in-depth attention to why our writing
should ... been
involved in assisting graduate students develop their business writing
skills.
He won the Best Emirati Book Award 2011 for his book A Practical Guide
to Business Writing, a helpful Business English guide for non-native
speakers of English in the region. He has also been nominated Author
of the Year 2011 by the Webpreneur Academy based in Dubai in rec-
ognition of his dedication and innovations in the elds of education
and entrepreneurship.
He gained a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Souther...
... 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...
... Beyond the academic essay: Discipline-specific writing
in nursing and midwifery, Journal of EnglishforAcademic
Purposes (7): 151-164.
Hewings, A. (2004) Developing discipline-specific writing: ... 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...
... 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 ... between the real world,
academic study and essay writing had not been strong enough. “I think that
the homework has been useful to complete our writing skills about academic
and opinion essays. ... into the negotiation of strategies needed
for successful writing.
7 Conclusion
Based on the results of a two-year research study on academicwriting in
nursing, midwifery and social work,...
... 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 ...
part of this study, focusing on report writingfor students of business English,
has been published elsewhere (Breeze, 2007). This paper reports the results
of the second part of the study, which ... 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...
... R.R. (1997) EnglishforAcademic Purposes. A Guide and Resource
Book for Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Krzanowski, M. (1998) Materials design in teaching EnglishforAcademic ... (2002) Developing legal writing
materials forEnglish second language learners: Problems and
perspectives, Englishfor Specific Purposes (21) 4: 299-320.
Chan, C.S.C. (2009) Forging a link between ...
(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...
...
Therefore, in the description of the CVS as a mediated genre, the affordances
of the medium and how they affect its generic integrity have to be taken into
consideration. More importantly for ... the company stands for and how its
employees conduct themselves. Corporate values frame a role for the
corporation that gives it a purpose beyond profit. Most importantly for the
objectives ... altered, unless transformations occur in the primary culture
which need to be reflected in the deletion of old values or the addition of new
ones. An example of this rewriting as a response...
... as
a source of information was 3.24 (3.00 for adherent and 3.33 for non-
adherent patients), and the average rating for news reports was 3.38 (3.10 for
adherent and 3.56 for non-adherent interviewees). ... medical
information, and for several of the patients in this study, the internet has
become the primary source of information about their disease. The average
importance rating for the internet ... the internet was
viewed by many of the respondents as a wellspring of information: “the web
has been huge for me…find information, diabetes care and such, know what
Type 1 and Type 2 are, differences...