“ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES” BY – LIZ HAMP – LYONS.

RESPECTED SIR,

       “ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES”

                 

                         BY – LIZ HAMP – LYONS.

                                                

                           ESP

English for Academic Purposes is not only a teaching 

approach.

It is also a branch of applied linguistics consisting of 

a significant body of research in to effective teaching 

and assessment approaches, methods of analysis of 

the academic language needs of students, analysis of 

the linguistic and discoursal structures of academic 

texts, and analysis of the textual practices of 

academics.

An EAP program focuses instruction on skills 

required to perform in an English speaking academic 

context across core subject areas generally 

encountered in a university setting.

 

                             E.A.P

 

       Background – Research – Practice

                       Background : -

  

The term EAP first come in to general use through 

the British organization Selmous which was formed 

in 1972.

The field of EAP was first characterized within a 

largerperspective by Strevens (1977). Strevens saw 

EAP as a branch of the larger field of English for 

Specific purposes or ESP.

                          

                      Strevens Subscribed

1). A move away from an emphasis on the literature 

and culture of English speakers and toward teaching 

for practical command of the language.

2). A move toward a view that the teaching of the 

language should be matched to the needs and 

purposes of the language.

                        Needs Analysis -

Is fundamental to an EAP approach to course design 

and teaching.

                                           

                     Register : -

Lexical and grammatical structural features

                                    

                      Discourse : -

 

The effect of communicative context the relationship 

between the text discourse and its speakers writers 

hearers readers.

                                              

                         Genre : -

 

How language is used in a particular setting, such 

research papers, dissertations, formal lectures.

                                            

                      Research :-

As is the case in ESP, much of the EAP materials 

development described in the practice section below 

is underpinned by work in needs analysis. Jordan 

sees four dimensions of needs :-

A). Those of the target situation.

B). Of the employer or sponsor

C). Of the student

D). And of the course designer and / or teacher.

E). Research into EAP falls within one or more of 

these areas.

 

                           Practice :-

EAP courses also typically focus attention on the 

language skills separately the rules and strategies of 

academic skills are not like those of the general 

language skills, and his is acknowledged in books 

such as

- Study Listening ( Lynch 1983)

- Study Writing .

 

                       Conclusion :-

EAP is a thriving and important aspect of TESOL 

that has so far received less attention from 

researchers than it deserves.

It is also more complex and potentially problematic 

than most English language teachers recognize at 

the beginning of their EAP teaching.

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