Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What is English
for Academic
purposes (EAP)?
- EAP
- English for Academic
Purposes
- Is realeted to:
- The communications skills in
English
- Needed to study purposes in formal education systems
- Comes out in:
- A variety of settings and
circumstances
- English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Whether the teachers
are:
- Native speakers of
English (NS) or
non-native speakers
(NNS)
- EAP courses are very
handy
- The courses may
be:
- Pre-sessional
- Held before an
academic course begins
- Held before an academic
term.
- Full-time
- Half-time
- In-sessional
- These
courses are
usually
attended by:
- Students
who
are
studying
their
mainstream
subjects
- The
courses
may have
a
different
range of
time
- May
include:
- Formal
teaching
programs
- Self-access
situations
- Distance-learning
materials
- Computer-assisted
language
learning
(CALL)
- In UK for
instance,
- Usually run by
- Language
centers
- Units or departments
- The relationship between EAP,
study skills and ESP
- The global language skills are:
- In the middle of all the language
purpose
- English for General Purposes
(EGP)
- Has often been name ‘TENOR’ (the Teaching of English for No Obvious
Reason)
- EAP has to
main
strands
- English for
- Occupational/Vocational/Professional
- Under
EVP/EPP
- Materials have been
developed
- For trainee
professionals
- To give them practice in their professional
toils interaction
- For medicine students
- Books and audios have been
prepared under ESAP
- To give practice in reading textbooks and the like
- EAP
- Can be seen
in detail with
two divisions:
- As a common core
or subject-specific
- Which might be now
considered as English for
General Academic Purposes
(EGAP)
- and
- English for Specific Purposes (ESAP)
- A large
portion is:
- Generally known as ‘study skills’
- Every
particular
academic
subject
needs:
- A Subject-specific English language
- Which its:
- Language
structure
- Vocabulary
- Particular
skills
- The appropriate academic
conventions
- Some authors
- Regarded EAP
- and
- Study skills