Olwyn Alexander | Sue Argent | Jenifer Spencer

A teacher’s guide to principles and practiceA teacher’s guide to principles and practice

EAP Essentials

With the increase in students joining academic English-language courses, the teaching of English for Academic Purposes is a rapidly expanding profession. There are, however, few specialist handbooks for the practising teacher in this field.

EAP Essentials: a teacher’s guide to principles and practice is grounded in the authors’ extensive practical experience in the EAP classroom. It bridges the gap between the theory and practice of EAP teaching, by distilling the insights from recent research into ideas that can be applied in teaching and materials development.

EAP Essentials builds confidence through a range of practical tasks and by providing case studies of real teachers and students. This enables the teacher to reflect on best practice and identify ways to develop their own teaching skills.

EAP Essentials offers original and practical ideas appropriate to a wide variety of contexts. The accompanying free CD also provides a large number of well-trialled materials that can be copied for use within the classroom.

The book contains ten chapters, each one underpinned by up-to-date research, and backed up with a list of recommended further reading.

Olwyn Alexander, Sue Argent and Jenifer Spencer have taught EAP in further and higher education for many years. They are currently based at Heriot-Watt University where they teach EAP to students on applied science, engineering and management degrees, as well as running a short professional development course for EAP teachers. They have also collaborated in writing two distance-learning courses for EAP students.

The context of EAP

Text analysis

Course design

Reading

Vocabulary

Writing

Listening and speaking

Critical thinking

Student autonomy

Assessment

ISBN: 978-1-85964-419-5

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