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Bhowmik, Subrata; Chaudhuri, Anita – BC TEAL Journal, 2021
One of the objectives of examining culture vis-à-vis additional language (L2) writing is to conceptualize an effective L2 writing pedagogy (Matsuda & Atkinson, 2008). Kaplan's (1966) analysis of English as an additional language (EAL) texts was a pioneering endeavour in this regard, although due to ensuing controversy surrounding his claims,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Differences, Case Studies
Achieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Scott-Monkhouse, Anila R.; Tal, Michal; Yelenevskaya, Maria – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes a joint programme developed in 2018 by the University of Parma Language Centre (Italy) and the Humanities and Arts Department of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The aim of the project was to involve students of English for General Academic Purposes in delivering presentations to an unfamiliar foreign audience on a…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Van Viegen, Saskia; Russell, Bruce – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article highlights findings from evaluation of a bridging program for international students at a large Canadian university. Designed specifically for the postsecondary context, the program moved along the continuum from a general, skills-based approach to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching and learning, in which the focus may be on…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vitta, Joseph P.; Jost, Dayna; Pusina, Alexis – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Within English for Academic Purposes (EAP), writing instruction has often been of primary interest with a focus on curricula design and implementation. This especially holds true in East Asia where many universities operate EAP writing programmes. This study is located within this region, taking an inquiry stance in a small-scale case study of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Case Studies, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Boutorwick, T. J.; Macalister, John; Elgort, Irina – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
One avenue for developing second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge is through Extensive Reading (ER). ER can provide opportunities for incidental learning to occur. Class time is often too restricted for sufficient attention to deliberate learning (Hunt & Beglar, 2005) meaning ER is important for L2 vocabulary development. This article builds…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hiller, Kristin E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino-US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students' full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Brewer, Sarah; Whiteside, Karin – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The Cara Syria Programme has been developed to support Syrian academics who have had to abandon their academic positions due to the conflict in Syria and who have seen their careers compromised as a result. The Programme offers a means to re-establish their academic identities and develop new skills through participation in the learning activities…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wu, Zhiwei; Li, Xinqiang – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article reports on a study examining the extent to which pedagogical activities can affect students' cosmopolitan communicative competence (CCC) through online transnational encounters. A total of 58 students from a Hong Kong university and 25 students from an American university were divided into 25 transnational groups. They communicated…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication
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Harvey, Stella; Stocks, Paul – London Review of Education, 2017
This paper reports on a qualitative study investigating the experience and perspectives of students using English as an international language studying transdisciplinary master's degrees related to culture industries at Goldsmiths, University of London. The particular focus of this paper concerns their experiences of writing several different…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research
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Habib, Anna S.; Haan, Jennifer; Mallett, Karyn – Composition Forum, 2015
In the U.S., international enrollment trends have increased the pedagogical imperative to address multilingual graduate student writers' linguistic needs/growth in the process of their developing disciplinary expertise. In the context of this internationalization effort, what can two disciplines--Applied Linguistics and Composition--constructively…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Graduate Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Coyle, Do; Halbach, Ana; Meyer, Oliver; Schuck, Kevin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article explores how a group of educators and researchers enacted an inclusive process of conceptual growth involving teachers and teacher educators as active agents, knowledge builders and meaning-makers in the development of a Pluriliteracies approach to Teaching for Learning (PTL). The evolution of a working model based on five emergent…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Criticism, Second Language Learning
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Vorholt, Julie; Harris, Erica – English Teaching Forum, 2014
This article describes a three-week project-based unit on entrepreneurship conducted with students in communications classes in an Academic English context. A detailed road map of the project is given, starting with an introduction and ending with final presentations and poster sessions. Students were motivated by their own interests in business…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Motivation, English for Academic Purposes, Business Communication
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Rolinska, Ania – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This case study reports on the Digital English project, an experimental course in academic writing piloted with international students on a year-long pre-sessional programme. Inspired by Ulmer's (2003) "Mystory" project and Gauntlett's (2007) "Lego" research, the course concerns itself with the students' exploration of self at…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Discourse, Writing Instruction, Foreign Students
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Cole, Karen Sanderson – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
English for Academic Purposes is a compulsory one-semester course offered to first-year students at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad. Its primary objective is to assist students in developing competency in the targeted expository strategies that are deemed necessary to meet the writing requirements of the tertiary…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Cooperative Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries
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