M.K Bhavnagar University Department of English

Name :– Pandya Riva m Roll no:-23

Paper:-ELTTopic:-English for academic purposes by Liz Hamp Lyons

Introduction

EAP means English for academic purposes entails training students , to use language appropriately for study .

It is a branch of applied linguistic consisting of a significant body of research into effective teaching.

methods of analysis of the academic language needs of students .

There are three main parts of EAP,

Background Researchpractice

Background first came into general use through

the British organization SELMOUS(Special English Language materials for Overseas University Students) which was formed in 1972.

first characterized by Strevens. He saw EAP as a branch the larger field of ESP(English for Specific purposes)

Differences English for academic

purposes

Begins with the learners and the situation.

Focus on reading and writing .

It tend to Teach formal academic genres.

General English

Begins with the language.

Focus on speaking and listening.

Tend to Teach learners conventional and social genres of the language.

Needs analysis It is fundamental to an EAP approach to

course design and teaching. The study situation is more

specific ,many of the same areas of study skills are still taught but with particular attention to the language used in the specific disciplinary context identified in the needs analysis .

There are three types of language levels,

Language levels

Register • Lexical and grammatical , structural features.

Discourse

• The effect of communicative context, the relationship between text/discourse and its speakers, writers , hearers, readers.

Genre

• How language is used in a particular setting such as research papers, dissertations formal lectures.

Two levels of analysis (Research)

Macro level analysis

• Analysis of genres which are elements of texts such as paper introduction.

Micro level analysis

• Master’s work on the use of active verbs in scientific text.

Practice A main activity of Specialists in EAP is

materials design and development.

It is also focus on the language skills Separately the rules and strategies of academic skills are not like those of the general language skills.

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