Researching EAP PracticeLooking past limiting conditions: Prioritizing meaning in EAP
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CLIL context and implications
This example of researching and developing lessons in response to authentic texts is situated in a CLIL model of discipline-specific EAP in a first year university program, drawing from texts in students’ coursework to highlight how language is used to construct meaning. We are language instructors who design our lessons to respond to student needs and features of specific disciplinary practices, mining both our students’ course readings for valued language features and linguistics research to
How conditionals are often taught and understood
In our teacher training and supplementary grammar resource books, we noted a consistent pattern of establishing form-focused formulae for the representation of conditionality. Murphy and Smalzer’s best selling Grammar in Use: Intermediate (2001) is designed for student self-study, but also suggests it “be used by the teacher as a source of ideas and information on which to base a lesson” (2001, p. viii). Conditionals are somewhat contextualized in mini-scenarios that suggest the hypothetical,
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Jennifer Walsh Marr: Conceptualization, Writing – original draft. Fatimah Mahmood: Writing – original draft.
Jennifer Walsh Marr is an academic English lecturer in the Arts faculty at UBC Vantage College. For her classroom practice, she draws on critical pedagogy and discourse analysis to facilitate her students’ familiarity with valued features of the disciplines. Her research includes intersections of power, identity and language in the academy.
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Jennifer Walsh Marr is an academic English lecturer in the Arts faculty at UBC Vantage College. For her classroom practice, she draws on critical pedagogy and discourse analysis to facilitate her students’ familiarity with valued features of the disciplines. Her research includes intersections of power, identity and language in the academy.
Fatimah Mahmood is an Academic English lecturer in the Applied Science faculty at UBC Vantage College. She holds an MA in English Language Teaching (Pakistan) and MA in TESOL (TWU) and uses texts to stimulate critical thinking in her pedagogy.