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Directions for the Future

Issues in English for Academic Purposes

The papers comprising this volume are selected from presentations made at the 2001 Conference of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes, which was held at the University of Strathclyde (in Glasgow, Scotland). The role of EAP (English for Academic Purposes) is increasingly important, as higher education institutions consider their linguistic support strategies (both for native and non-native speakers of English), and confront the potential of the world wide web as a scholarly and pedagogic resource. The articles collected consider EAP - as an international profession - from a number of vital and relevant perspectives including practical pedagogy, research, and the impact of new technology.

With this in mind the suggestion that a single academic writing course, for
example, could be expected to provide effective help for students across a wide
range of subject areas is perhaps suspect. Ron White considers the ...
Commenting in the main on students having a Confucian cultural heritage, she
advocates the explicit teaching of metacognitive strategies which encourage
learners both to discern how academic text is structured and to make use of these
in their own writing.