Applying linguistics in TEAP: the case of student report writing
- Submitting institution
-
Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 11681203
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
-
-
- Book title
- Proceedings of the 2015 BALEAP Conference. EAP in a Rapidly Changing Landscape: Issues, Challenges and Solutions
- Publisher
- Garnet Education
- ISBN
- 9781782603450
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This output seeks to advance academic English in an area that typically reports research relevant to teachers of EAP without application. Gardner challenges this by demonstrating how several different types of research on academic English are relevant to different aspects of teaching EAP. This is a challenge Gardner has sought to address for some time through her research.
The research presented here extends knowledge by demonstrating how three areas of theory developed in analysis can be applied into areas of practice, drawing on prior research on academic English conducted by the author. Gardner first illustrates the value of macrostructures (a concept developed in Gardner & Holmes 2010) to TEAP, then shows how these inform but are distinct from Genre Families and Genres, and finally considers Register analysis and these can be applied in curriculum, and materials design in TEAP. The principle contribution is in demonstrating different ways in which findings from research on academic English can be used in the teaching of English for academic purposes.
The chapter is part of an edited volume containing selected papers from the Biennial British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) Conference in April 2015, which reports on English for Academic Purpose (EAP) in teaching and research in contexts as geographically diverse as Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, and in a rapidly changing landscape, alongside issues, challenges and solutions.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -