Contents Contributors xxvii Series editors’preface xxix Preface xxxi PART I ISSUES IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES 1 Introduction 3 1 Issues in EAP: A preliminary perspective 8 John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock 2 Language use, language planning and EAP 25 Chris Kennedy 3 EAP-related linguistic research: An intellectual history 42 John M. Swales 4 Linguistic research and EAP pedagogy 55 Brian Paltridge 5 International scientific English: The language of research scientists around the world 71 Alistair Wood 6 Discipline specificity and EAP 84 Caroline Clapham 7 World Englishes: Issues in and from academic writing assessment 101 Liz Hamp-Lyons and Bonnie Wenxia Zhang 8 Addressing issues of power and difference in ESL academic writing 117 Suresh Canagarajah 9 ‘Ill go with the group’: Rethinking‘discourse community’in EAP 132 Sue Starfield 10 EAP assessment: Issues, models, and outcomes 148 Geoff Brindley and Steven Ross PART II THE ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES CURRICULUM 167 Introduction 169 11 The EAP curriculum: Issues, methods, and challenges 177 John Flowerdew and Matthew Peacock 12 Twenty years of needs analyses: Reflections on a personal journey 195 George Braine 13 The curriculum renewal process in English for academic purposes programmes 208 Fredricka L. Stoller 14 Team-teaching in EAP: Changes and adaptations in the Birmingham approach 225 Tony Dudley-Evans 15 Does the emperor have no clothes? A re-examination of grammar in content-based instruction 239 Donna M. Brinton and Christine A. Holten 16 The specialised vocabulary of English for academic purposes 252 Averil Coxhead and Paul Nation 17 Language learning strategies and EAP proficiency: Teacher views, student views, and test results 268 Matthew Peacock 18 Issues in EAP test development: What one institution and its history tell us 286 Fred Davidson and Yeonsuk Cho 19 Teaching writing for academic purposes 298 Dana R. Ferris 20 Reading academic English: Carrying learners across the lexical threshold 315 Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst 21 Incorporating reading into EAP writing courses 330 Alan Hirvela 22 The development of EAP oral discussion ability 347 Peter Robinson, Gregory Strong, Jennifer Whittle, and Shuichi Nobe 23 Second language lecture comprehension research in naturalistic controlled conditions 360 Steve Tauroza 24 Designing tasks for developing study competence and study skills in English 375 Alan Waters and Mary Waters 25 Promoting EAP learner autonomy in a second language university context 390 Tony Lynch References 404 Index 460