Questioning Eap: A Critique of the English for Academic Purposes Courses at University

Fedorova, Natalia

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“…The number of foreign students graduating from universities in English-speaking countries has been steadily rising in the last few years before the Covid pandemic19. Universities in English-speaking countries, in order to attract as many foreign students as possible, are creating English language courses for academic purposes (EAP), which aim to bridge the perceived gap between language knowledge and academic skills that foreign students possess before studying (Fedorova 2021).…”

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E-Learning Web Application for Teaching English for Specific Purposes - “English at a Click”

Andrejević,

Nejković

2022

ESPEAP

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The web application "English at a Click", presented in this paper is used for learning specialized English. The application can be integrated into a part of a larger distance learning system, used as a supplement to traditional learning or as an independent web application. The current version of the application is implemented as an independent web application. The basic goal is to show the different contexts in which an English word can be used, which helps the user to choose the most appropriate term when translating a text from English into Serbian language and inversely. The application is in the prototype phase and it’s being tested. The tool presented in this paper was created on a free workspace on Oracle Cloud that the author uses for teaching purposes. The application was created with the idea to facilitate the learning of specialized English using modern technologies. The main advantage of the application compared to similar solutions is that it allows automatic text editing. The words from the text are replaced by the selected synonym only in the sentences that the user marks, very simply, with just a few clicks.

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Section: Classification Of Language Learning Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-Learning Web Application for Teaching English for Specific Purposes - “English at a Click”

Andrejević,

Nejković

2022

ESPEAP

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Basics of scientific foreign language communication for masters majoring in history: methodological aspect

Shkarban

2023

Teaching Languages at Higher Institutions

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The present article contextualizes the field of English for Academic Purposes, with a particular focus on the Master studentsʼ professional and academic skills in History and the role of the course in their making further career choices. Although literature presents some theoretical and pedagogical models of EAP course designs, there is still no specific methodology for the discipline construction under the academic program for History Masters. The authorʼs views on the design of the discipline “Basics of Scientific Communication in a Foreign Language” are introduced and methodologically substantiated in the work program as well as practically implemented on the basis of the e-learning educational and methodical complex aimed at the first- and second-year Masters in specialty 032 History and Archeology. The competency-based approach reflects the original conception of EAP in its concentration on discipline-specific texts and academic communication activities appropriate to the academic history where language is foregrounded and seen as constitutive of content encompassing chronological thinking, the ability to identify the time sequence for each historical event; historical comprehension, the skills to read and construct historical narratives imaginatively; historical analysis and interpretation, techniques in comparison and distinguishing experiences, beliefs, ideologies; historical research, including historical issues analysis and decision making, the ability to formulate historical problems in question based on historical sources, find contradictions in historical records, and establish socially significant historical interpretations. The focus on socio-cultural and professional competencies in the ethical dimension provides opportunities to examine the relationships between historical events in their past-present-future time sequencing from the history study perspective. The authorʼs work program on the discipline design and the implemented e-learning educational and methodical complex practically aim at the development of studentsʼ general and professionally oriented communicative competencies in English (linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic) to succeed in effective communication in their academic and professional environments.

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Questioning Eap: A Critique of the English for Academic Purposes Courses at University

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

E-Learning Web Application for Teaching English for Specific Purposes - “English at a Click”

E-Learning Web Application for Teaching English for Specific Purposes - “English at a Click”

Basics of scientific foreign language communication for masters majoring in history: methodological aspect

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