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Investigating Polish EHE teachers’ practices and beliefs. A survey-based analysis. Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala, Magdalena Walenta
The aim of this research was to gain insights into the current state of English for Higher Education (EHE) teaching in Poland from the perspective of its key stakeholders – EHE teachers. A total of 128 EHE teachers employed in Polish universities participated in an online survey-based study that explored their self-reported practices and beliefs regarding various facets of teaching English at university
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Stance-taking in peer reviewer and thesis examiner feedback on Iranian scholarly contributions Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hadi Kashiha
In academia, the assessment of scholarly works is conducted through diverse evaluative genres, each characterized by genre-specific linguistic features. This study adopts a corpus-assisted approach to compare how stance-taking strategies are employed in the contexts of manuscript reviews and doctoral defense sessions, with particular attention to the contributions of Iranian researchers. Following
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Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Michael Guest, Duyen Thi Hong Le
This study explores the ways in which English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers in three East Asian countries, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand, understand and utilize top-down and bottom-up (hereafter abbreviated to TD and BU respectively) teaching pedagogies in their classrooms. A judicious combination of either approach in both classroom pedagogy has long been advocated by both theorists and veteran
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Citation choices in L2 novices' and experts’ literature review sections: A functional discourse analysis Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Congjun Mu
In response to Petrić’s (2012) call for comparing citation practices between student and published writing in the same field to better understand the interaction between developmental and disciplinary influences on the utilization of direct quotation, this paper conducts a comparative analysis of citation choices in 100 literature review sections of L2 master's theses and 100 research article literature
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Book review Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Weihong Chen, Lawrence Jun Zhang
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Action and understanding in the semi-structured research interview: Using CA to analyse European research scientists’ attitudes to linguistic (dis)advantage Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Frances Junnier
The semi-structured research interview is commonly used in EAP research to gain emic or insider perspectives. However, critics suggest that simplistic approaches to interview are pervasive, and that interview data is over-used and under-analysed by qualitative researchers. In this study, I consider the interactional nature of the EAP research interview by using the Conversation Analysis (CA) lens of
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Translanguaging pedagogies: Using an action research approach to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in a first-year undergraduate anatomy course. Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Kelly Shoecraft, Helen Massa, Leanne Kenway
Internationalisation of higher education has increased the number of EAL students studying in Anglophone countries, including Australia. Required English language proficiency tests (e.g., IELTS) do not reflect discipline-specific terminology nor prior learning necessary for successful study. Furthermore, anatomy study, the focus of this paper, requires an extensive terminology, predominantly derived
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Academic writing in English: Lessons from an EMI-program in Japan Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tiina Matikainen
As international students and English-medium Instruction (EMI) programs increase, Japanese universities need to adapt their programs to fulfill the needs of these students. One often overlooked area is academic writing in English. This paper discusses an action research study examining the challenges of providing formal academic writing support for English-speaking students in an EMI-program at one
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“Let's start with the basics of the virus”: Engaging the public in two forms of explainers Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Hang (Joanna) Zou, Ken Hyland
Explainers are a relatively new genre increasingly used to provide readers with background information, disseminate specialised knowledge and enhance public outreach. These functions were particularly crucial during the Covid-19 pandemic which demanded accurate and widespread health-related information to counter considerable social media disinformation. Based on 81 academic and 81 popular explainers
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Author self-reference in cross-linguistic/cultural and cross-disciplinary academic discourse Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jihua Dong, Kaiyue Du, Louisa Buckingham
This study explored the use of author self-reference from cross-linguistic/cultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives in research articles (RAs). Based on a self-built corpus consisting of two disciplines (Computer Science and Linguistics) and two languages (Chinese and English), this study extracted the self-reference markers and compared their uses across the linguistic/cultural and disciplinary
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Approaching digital genre composing through reflective pedagogical praxis Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Carmen Pérez-Llantada
With the development of Web 2.0 we have witnessed an ever-expanding repertoire of digital genres. This brings with it new communicative needs and invites us to reflect on possible ways of teaching digital multimodal composing in EAP courses. Using case study research and genre theory as a heuristic, this article critically discusses the implementation of a pedagogical practice that sought to raise
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Comparing the syntactic complexity of plain language summaries and abstracts: A case study of marine science academic writing Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Yingying Liu, Tiantian Li
Plain Language Summary (PLS) has been increasingly required for manuscript submission by leading academic journals across various disciplines. While Abstract is an important academic genre for communication with fellow researchers, PLS targets the general public with limited disciplinary knowledge. Few studies to date have explored the linguistic differences between PLSs and Abstracts. Addressing this
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Notetaking as validity evidence: A mixed-methods investigation of question preview in EAP listening assessment Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Rebecca Yeager, GoMee Park, Ray J.T. Liao
Recent scholarship has questioned the cognitive validity of listening tests with preview, in which test-takers can see test questions before listening. This study mined student notes for evidence of cognitive processes in listening tests with and without preview, using a mixed-methods design that explored the effect of test format on notetaking behaviors. Qualitative analysis indicated that students
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Learner-centered EAP practices: Managing agenda in tutorial interaction Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Teppo Jakonen, Derya Duran
Many higher education institutions support the linguistic needs of ESL students by providing various kinds of tutorial services. Although tutorial interaction has received much research attention, few studies have investigated how tutors and students make decisions about what language skills and activities to focus on during tutorials. In this article, we use conversation analysis (CA) to explore how
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Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline, Jonathan Hall and Bruce Horner (Eds.). The WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, Colorado, (2023). 288 pp., US$34.95, ISBN: 978-1-64215-152-7 (PDF), ISBN: 978-1-64215-153-4 (ePub), ISBN:978-1-64642-387-3 (pbk).. Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Yuehai Mike Xiao, Tianyu Zhang, Li Sun
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Social theory for english for academic purposes, Ding Alex, Evans Michelle (Eds.), Bloomsbury Academic (2022), p. 232, £81.00, ISBN: 9781350227668 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Mostafa Morady Moghaddam
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JEAP News-Greetings from the BALEAP SIG Officer Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
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Students’ attitudes towards accents in English-medium instruction: The role of cosmopolitan and motivation orientations Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Charlie Robinson-Jones, Joana Duarte, Dymphi van der Hoeven
English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a key aspect of internationalisation agendas in higher education, which are also increasingly promoting cosmopolitanism and global citizenship. Within EMI programmes, however, lecturers' non-native English accents can pose challenges for students' content understanding and influence their evaluations of lecturers and education quality. Motivation, whether
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ISBN: 978-0472039128. US$29.95 Thriving as a Graduate Writer: Principles, Strategies, and Habits for Effective Academic Writing, Rachael Cayley, University of Michigan Press (2023), p. 236 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Xiatinghan Xu, Mary Jane Curry
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Crossing Borders, Writing Texts, Being Evaluated: Cultural and Disciplinary Norms in Academic Writing, Anne Golden, Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, Lawrence Jun Zhang (Eds.), Multilingual Matters (2022), xv+166 pp. US$39.95, UK£29.95, ISBN: 978-1-788-92858-8 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Xiaolong Cheng, Yan Liu, Zhe Wang
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EAP practitioners' assessment behavior: Bringing the hidden-away to light Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Parisa Karimpour, Farhad Mazlum
Our information about assessment behavior of EAP teachers constructing and using their classroom tests is so scanty that Schmitt and Hamp-Lyons (2015) believe it is hidden away from language testing community. We investigated how two different groups of Iranian EAP practitioners (discipline-area teachers and English language specialists) perceive and practice EAP assessment. We interviewed thirty teachers
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A corpus-based study of signalling nouns in marketing and economics research articles Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Hongmiao Gao, Chunmei Lu, Chunyu Hu
Signalling nouns (SNs, hereinafter) as grammatical metaphors serve as effective clues to disciplinary epistemology. Based on self-built corpora, this study explores disciplinary variation in the use of SNs by investigating marketing and economics research articles (RAs, hereinafter). The results show that marketing RAs employ SNs with significantly higher frequency than economics RAs. In terms of grammatical
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Discoursing disciplinarity: A bibliometric analysis of published research in the past 30 years Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Luda Liu, Yue Yuan, Zhongquan Du
Diverging from the long-held homogeneous view of academic discourse, the issue of disciplinarity has come to the forefront in EAP teaching and discourse analysis. Although disciplinary discourse is a well-established and expanding line of inquiry, there has been limited retrospective analysis to unpack its evolutionary nuances. This bibliometric study maps its evolution from 1990 to 2022, tracing its
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BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Angelos Bakogiannis, Stefani Goga, Daniela Standen, Emily Downes, Anthony Flint
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Language Acquisition and Academic Writing: Theory and Practice of Effective Writing Instruction, James D. Williams (Ed.), Routledge, New York (2023), p. 179, ISBN: 978-1-032-35876-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-32150-9 (pbk), 978-1-003-32913-8 (ebk) Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Hongyan Yang, Yonghua (Yoka) Wang
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Mapping cohesion in research articles of applied linguistics: A close look at rhetorical sections Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar, Peter Crosthwaite, Elahe Ziaeian
There is a dearth of research on cohesion in academic writing, specifically in research articles (RAs). In addition, there is little quantitative information on how cohesion is realized in different rhetorical sections of RAs. Thus, the present study investigated cohesion at sentence, paragraph, and the whole textual levels across the rhetorical sections of RAs of applied linguistics. To this end,
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Corpus linguistics for writing development: A guide for research, Philip Durrant, Routledge, Abingdon/New York (2022), p. 194, ISBN-13: 9780367715793, Paperback: US$51.08/ UK£32.64 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Qidi Li, Jianwei Yan
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The rhetorical organization of discussions sections of qualitative research articles in Applied Linguistics and the use of meta-discourse markers Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Nasrin Ash’ari, Elyas Barabadi, Majid Elahi Shirvan
This study examined the rhetorical organization and the distribution of meta-discourse markers in a corpus of 20 qualitative research articles in the Applied Linguistics field. The findings of the study indicated that the seven-move structure proposed by prior research in quantitative datasets is also true in our qualitative dataset. Concerning steps, however, this study indicated that there are two
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Engagement in Medical Research Discourse A Multisemiotic Approach to Dialogic Positioning, Daniel Lees Fryer, Routledge, New York (2022), p. 220, 9780367484682, $160 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ali Derakhshan
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Clarity and Coherence in Academic Writing: Using language as a resource, David Nunan, Julie Choi, Routledge, New York and London (2023), p. 224, $US 35.27, £UK 21.59, ISBN: 9781032013824 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Lu Huang, Liping Chen
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What does it mean to construct an argument in academic writing? A synthesis of English for general academic purposes and English for specific academic perspectives Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Sachiko Yasuda
Argumentation is a crucial skill in higher education, and argumentative essays are common genres that students have to write. However, studies have shown that many L2 learners have difficulty in developing an argument in their essays (Wingate, 2012) and that teachers face challenges in gaining an understanding of argumentation and how to scaffold L2 learners (Kibler, 2017). As a first step toward establishing
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‘Excited to see our latest work published’: Recontextualizing research results in biomedical tweetorials Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 María-José Luzón
Tweetorials, long Twitter threads to communicate complex concepts, are becoming increasingly popular among medical experts. While a few studies have analyzed tweetorials which serve to communicate scientific information to a general audience, no attention has been paid to how tweetorials are used to report on and publicize research and results published in an article or preprint. In this study move
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Academic “click bait”: A diachronic investigation into the use of rhetorical part in pragmatics research article titles Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Xinren Chen, Hao Liu
This study reports on a diachronic investigation into the under-explored practice of using a rhetorical part – an unconventional, informationally non-compulsory part involving the use of rhetorical device(s) – in compound titles of published pragmatics research articles (RAs). By analyzing 2263 compound RA titles drawn from two high-profile international journals in pragmatics published during three
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Changing patterns of the grammatical stance devices in medical research articles (1970–2020) Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Juanjuan Wu, Fan Pan
While the grammatical marking of stance in academic writing is dynamic and susceptible to change over time, relatively few studies have tracked the changing patterns of stance expressions in contemporary medical academic writing. Based on 480 medical research articles published in top medical journals between 1970 and 2020, this study investigated the use of three major types of stance devices (modals
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Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Mimi Li, John Gibbons, Quang Nam Pham
As multimodal texts become ubiquitous in the digital age, analyzing how writers interact with readers via the multimodal genre is getting increasingly important. Enlightened by Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) work on visual design, D'Angelo (2016) extended the metadiscourse model (Hyland, 2004) and proposed a new framework of visual metadiscourse to analyze academic posters. In this study, we adopted
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An exploratory study of English as a Second Language students’ “citation” patterns in multimodal writing Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Xiao Tan
This study explores how English as a Second Language (ESL) students make reference to outside sources and incorporate textual repetition using multimodal resources in a video project. ESL students’ source use and citation practices have been studied extensively in the context of traditional text-based writing. However, little attention is paid to the issue of making citations in multimodal writing
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Specialized vocabulary in TED talks and TED-Ed animations: Implications for learning English for science and technology Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Chen-Yu Liu
TED talks and TED-Ed animations have been widely used in English language courses to facilitate the learning of general and general academic English. However, little is known about their potential as resources for learning specific academic English. This study helps to fill this gap by examining, from a lexical perspective, their potential as learning materials for English for science and technology
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BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Conrad Heyns
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“This study is not without its limitations”: Acknowledging limitations and recommending future research in applied linguistics research articles Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 D. Philip Montgomery
Acknowledging limitations and making recommendations for future research are often presented in thesis handbooks and rubrics as obligatory moves that demonstrate an author's critical self-evaluation and authority. Published research articles (RAs), however, reflect nuanced variation that challenges this interpretation. Based on two specialized corpora of 100 quantitative and 100 qualitative RAs from
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English language program administration: Leadership and management in the 21st Century, M. Christison, F.L. Stoller (Eds.), Springer, Cham, Switzerland (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28601-8, ISBN 978-3-031-28600-1 (hardcover) $159.99; ISBN 978-3-031-28601-8 (eBook) $119.00 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Jason Litzenberg
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A novel multi-dimensional analysis of reply, response and rejoinder articles: When discipline meets time Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Jiawei Wang, Zhiying Xin
The purpose of this study is to profile the genre of reply, response, and rejoinder articles (3R) on a corpus of 480 texts sourced from the disciplines of History, Linguistics, Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, Physics, Politics, and Economics. A novel multi-dimensional model based on 124 linguistic features was developed on five functional dimensions: i. Literate vs. oral production, ii. Non-technical
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Using legitimation code theory to investigate English medium lecturers’ knowledge-building practices Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Irina Argüelles-Álvarez, Tom Morton
This study uses Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to examine the knowledge-building practices of two lecturers teaching computing courses through English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at a Spanish university. LCT is a sociological framework for exploring and improving knowledge practices across academic and other fields of activity. The study uses the LCT dimension of Semantics, which sees knowledge
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English as a Medium of Instruction on the Arabian Peninsula, Mark Wyatt, Glenda El Gamal (Eds.), Routledge, Abingdon, New York (2023), p. 256, £96.00, ISBN 9781032024936 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Chonglong Gu
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The nonuse of the definite article the in referencing definite nouns in research writing: An empirical study using both corpus and survey data and its implications Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
Using both corpus and survey data, this study examines a hitherto uninvestigated issue: the use of the null article (i.e., the nonuse of the definite article the in referencing definite/specific nouns) in academic research writing. Specifically, the study consisted of three parts: a small corpus analysis of research articles (RAs) written by well published L1 English scholars in applied linguistics
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Demystifying academic promotional genre:A rhetorical move-step analysis of Teaching Philosophy Statements (TPSs) Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Yuanheng (Arthur) Wang
As a high-stakes academic promotional genre, teaching philosophy statements (TPSs) are important in academic professionals’ career success and professional development in U.S. higher education. However, this genre remains relatively overlooked in current EAP genre research. The study addresses this gap by investigating the rhetorical moves and steps, including their frequency and sequence, in 100 TPSs
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Scientists say: Patterns of attribution in popular and professional science writing Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
The research article (RA) has held unparalleled importance in several fields of applied linguistics but is only one genre among many that researchers produce and readers consume. This study compares RAs with a related genre called ‘popular science.’ More linguistic-oriented research of popular science genres is needed to account for the growing body of contemporary popular science discourse. This study
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The development of ESL students’ synthesis writing through reading instruction Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Synthesis writing, or discourse synthesis, is important in university contexts and has received increasing attention in research on academic writing. Synthesis is challenging because it involves using both reading and writing skills to integrate information from source texts. Although previous research has found that writing instruction leads to improvement in synthesis writing, no studies have investigated
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Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Madhu Neupane Bastola, Victor Ho
A Doctor of Philosophy degree is expected to provide a transformative experience to students and expand the frontier of disciplinary knowledge to benefit the wider public. The achievement of these goals depends on students' engagement with disciplinary practices and conversations and is reflected in their PhD dissertations. This paper reports on a study that examined students’ engagement with previous
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Self-mention in L2 (Czech) learner academic discourse: Realisations, functions and distribution across master's theses Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
This article explores self-mention in L2 (Czech) English-medium master's theses written in the humanities along three dimensions of analysis: realisation, authorial roles and distribution across rhetorical sections. While extending the scope of self-mention to cover nominal forms, the aim of the study is to find out how Czech graduates combine pronominal and nominal self-mention to modulate the degree
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BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the STEM SIG Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Conrad Heyns
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Microaggressions to microaffirmations: A trioethnography of plurilingual EAP instructors Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Rebecca Schmor, Sarah Jones, Karam Noel
This article is based on a qualitative study exploring the intersectional identities and practices of three plurilingual English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructors at three major Canadian universities. The research objective was to investigate how the authors' lived experiences had informed their plurilingual teaching practices (Galante, 2019; Piccardo, 2019). As such, the authors conducted and
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Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication, María José Luzon, Carmen Pérez-Llantada, Multilingual Matters, Bristol (2022), p. 232, ISBN 9781788924726, € 269,90; £ 229,90; $ 319,90 Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Jan Engberg
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“Gruelling to read”: Swedish university students’ perceptions of and attitudes towards academic reading in English Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Linda Eriksson
Students around the world are expected to read, comprehend and learn from growing numbers of English texts in higher educational contexts where the official medium of instruction is the local language. Despite this language shift, relatively little attention has been paid to the challenges academic texts in English present for students. The present paper provides insights into first-year university
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Radical cures for author self-citation gaming Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Guangwei Hu
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A cross-sectional analysis of negation used in thesis writing by L1 and L2 PhD students Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Xuelan Li, Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Jing Ma
PhD theses have received considerable attention over years, playing a crucial role for PhD students to represent external realities and create writer-reader relations. To engage with alternative voices in textual interaction, PhD students produce their texts through the use of negation along with other interpersonal devices. Additionally, negation as an important rhetorical device performs both interactive
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An exploratory investigation of instructors' practices and challenges in promoting students' learning transfer in EAP education Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Mark A. James
To be successful, English for academic purposes (EAP) education must lead to students' transfer of learning to new situations beyond the EAP classroom. Research on learning transfer in EAP education contexts has tended to focus on students, leaving another perspective underexplored: EAP instructors'. While existing scholarly work points to concrete steps that could be taken in EAP education to promote
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Lexical complexity changes in 100 years’ academic writing: Evidence from Nature Biology Letters Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Xinye Zhou, Yuan Gao, Xiaofei Lu
Previous diachronic studies of lexical changes in academic writing have focused on the evolution of specific sets or classes of words with specific grammatical or discourse functions, with no scholarly attention paid to diachronic changes in the overall lexical complexity of academic writing, a construct that has been shown to be closely related to text readability and writing quality. This study explores
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Academic publishing and the attention economy Journal of English for Academic Purposes (IF 2.811) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ken Hyland
With the explosion of information and constant bombardment of news, advertising and social media, the ‘Knowledge Economy’ has given way to the ‘Attention Economy’, which treats human attention as a scarce commodity. In the digital age, moreover, research articles are products competing for readers' limited attention in a context of massively greater competition. This is particularly relevant for academics