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Title

Credit-based discipline specific English for academic purposes programmes in higher education: revitalizing the profession

Author(s)

Melles, Gavin;  Millar, Geoff;  Morton, Janne;  Fegan, Suzanne

Abstract

In the UK, North America and Australia, credit-bearing discipline specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are seen as a challenge to remedial views of English as a Second Language and a key element in revitalizing a profession on the periphery of the institution. However, the EAP field has to confront not only institutional challenges to its acceptability as a discipline but also tensions within the field. In this article we examine the tensions which underpin current and future directions in the field, review the development of credit-based EAP courses in the US, UK and Australia, and illustrate our discussion with a case study from the University of Melbourne, We conclude by arguing that discipline specific credit-based EAP offers promising hope for the future of the EAP discipline in higher education, but that to achieve this end the field and practitioners need to find a position between critique of and accommodation to discipline specific content.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 4, no. 3 (2005), pp. 283-303

Publication year

2005

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Colleges;  Curriculum;  EAP;  English for Academic Purposes;  English language;  Higher education;  United Kingdom;  United States;  Universities

Publisher

Sage

ISSN

1474-0222

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474022205056171

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 SAGE Publications. Author's final draft reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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