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Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-459) and index.

"The number of non-native students studying in English-medium universities has increased over the past decade. Paralleling this growth is the interest in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). No one research-based volume has yet investigated the theoretical issues and pedagogical concerns of the area. This wide-ranging volume of specially commissioned articles from leading scholars in the field aims to bring to the wider community current research in the field and its implications for pedagogy. This book offers a state-of-the-art representation of research in EAP and will help define the field in the coming years." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

List of contributors

Series editors' preface

Preface

I ISSUES IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Introduction to Part I / John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock

1. Issues in EAP: a preliminary perspective / John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock

2. Language use, language planning and EAP / Chris Kennedy

3. EAP-related linguistic research: an intellectual history / John M. Swales

4. Linguistic research and EAP pedagogy / Brian Paltridge

5. International scientific English: the language of research scientists around the world / Alistair Wood

6. Discipline specificity and EAP / Caroline Clapham

7. World Englishes: issues in and from academic writing assessment / Liz Hamp-Lyons and Bonnie Wenxia Zhang

8. Addressing issues of power and difference in ESL academic writing / Suresh Canagarajah

9. 'I'll go with the group': rethinking 'discourse community' in EAP / Sue Starfield

10. EAP assessment: issues, models, and outcomes / Geoff Brindley and Steven Ross

II THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES CURRICULUM

Introduction to Part II / John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock

11. EAP curriculum: Issues, methods, and challenges / John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock

12. Twenty years of needs analyses: reflections on a personal journey / George Braine

13. Curriculum renewal process in English for academic purposes programmes / Fredricka L. Stoller

14. Team-teaching in EAP: changes and adaptations in the Birmingham approach / Tony Dudley-Evans

15. Does the emperor have no clothes? A re-examination of grammar in content-based instruction / Donna M. Brinton and Christine A. Holten

16. Specialised vocabulary of English for academic purposes / Averil Coxhead and Paul Nation

17. Language learning strategies and EAP proficiency: teacher views, student views, and test results / Matthew Peacock

18. Issues in EAP test development: what one institution and its history tell us / Fred Davidson and Yeonsuk Cho

19. Teaching writing for academic purposes / Dana R. Ferris

20. Reading academic English: carrying learners across the lexical threshold / Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst

21. Incorporating reading into EAP writing courses / Alan Hirvela

22. Development of EAR oral discussion ability / Peter Robinson, Gregory Strong, Jennifer Whittle, and Shuichi Nobe

23. Second language lecture comprehension research in naturalistic controlled conditions / Steve Tauroza

24. Designing tasks for developing study competence and study skills in English / Alan Waters and Mary Waters

25. Promoting EAP learner autonomy in a second language university context / Tony Lynch