Overview
- Discusses the role of EAP practitioners in the context of the current higher education landscape
- Focuses on the EAP practitioner, rather than simply on EAP practice
- Analyses the professional and academic identities of EAP practitioners
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“The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner: Operating on the Edge of Academia is the first substantial work to focus on EAP practitioners and practitioner-related issues: such issues include questions about the identity, practices and career trajectories of EAP practitioners, with the wider aim of catalysing further discussion, theory building and enquiry. … will continue to influence for some time to come how we see, understand and contribute to the professional lives of colleagues and EAP practitioner communities.” (Cynthia White, System, Vol. 75, July, 2018)
“This is a timely and important work. Although the context is specific to EAP, the precarious working conditions described will resonate with most EFL/ESL teachers, and this book may well inspire a similar one examining the wider ELT context. … This is an excellent piece of work and essential reading for anyone working in EAP.” (Stephen Bruce, English Australia Journal, Vol. 34 (01), 2018)
“The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner represents an insightful, thoroughly excellent work. It should be required reading in TESOL graduate study programs and EAP training workshops, as it will empower current and future practitioners with a greater knowledge into not only the challenges, but also of the potential EAP has in addressing both scholarly and pragmatic needs in today's increasingly globalized higher educational institutions.” (Gregory Hadley, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ian Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he also teaches on the MA degree of the same name. His research interests include the application of genre theory to English for Academic Purposes courses, and to academic writing instruction. He is closely involved with the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP), and has contributed to the development of their teacher competency framework.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner
Book Subtitle: Operating on the Edge of Academia
Authors: Alex Ding, Ian Bruce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59737-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59736-2Published: 17 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86691-8Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59737-9Published: 28 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: Applied Linguistics, English, Multilingualism, Language Teaching, Higher Education