Description
The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics Series
Coordinator: Hyland Ken
Language: EnglishSubject for The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes:
Keywords
Specific EAP; Handbook of English for Academic Purposes; EAP Teacher; Academic Literacy; Critical EAP; EAP and language skills; EAP Practitioner; Ken Hyland; Research Article; Philip Shaw; EAP Instruction; Genre Analysis; EAP Research; Intercultural Rhetoric; EAP Context; Ethnography and EAP; EAP Student; EAP in school settings; EAP Classroom; EAP in the sciences; EAP Literature; EAP and dissertation writing; EAP; Needs analaysis; L2 Writing; Material design; EAP Program; Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics; EAP Material; EAP Learner; EAP Course; EAP Study; EAP Researcher; Academic Word List; EAP Writing; Lexical Bundles; Professional Development; EAP Professional; British Academic Written English Corpus
Publication date: 01-2020
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2016
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
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The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), covering the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this fast growing area of applied linguistics. Forty-four chapters are organised into eight sections covering:
- Conceptions of EAP
- Contexts for EAP
- EAP and language skills
- Research perspectives
- Pedagogic genres
- Research genres
- Pedagogic contexts
- Managing learning
Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter focuses on a different area of EAP and provides a state-of-the-art review of the key ideas and concepts. Illustrative case studies are included wherever possible, setting out in an accessible way the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of research or practice in that area. Suggestions for further reading are included with each chapter.
The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes is an essential reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of EAP within English, Applied Linguistics and TESOL.
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Acknowledgements
1
Introduction
Section 1: Conceptions of EAP
Section 2: Contexts for EAP
Section 3 EAP and language skills
Section 4 Research perspectives
Section 5 Pedagogic genres
Section 6 Research genres
Section 7: Pedagogic contexts
Section 8: Managing learning
Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre forApplied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His publicationsinclude Innovation and Change in English Language Education(edited with Lillian Wong, Routledge, 2013), Teaching andResearching Writing, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009) andEnglish for Academic Purpose s (Routledge, 2006).
Philip Shaw is Professor in the Department of English, University of Stockholm,Sweden. He is the co-author of World Englishes: AnIntroduction, 2nd edition (with Gunnel Melchers, 2011).