Interdisciplinary Practices in Academia

Louisa Buckingham lectures in applied linguistics at the University of Auckland. She has a multi-disciplinary background, blending applied linguistics with the social sciences. Her research and teaching draw epistemologies typical of both disciplines and, where possible, she includes transdisciplinary components in course assessments. She is currently working on interdisciplinary projects related to ethnolinguistic diversity, and is collaborating with Jihua Dong on bibliometric projects.Jihua Dong is Professor, Qilu Young Scholar, and Taishan Young Scholar in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Shandong University, China, where she teaches students from a wide range of disciplines. She has been involved in interdisciplinary research projects that merge applied linguistics with computer science and bibliometrics. She has also undertaken corpus-based analyses of interdisciplinary academic discourse.Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor in applied linguistics in the School of Foreign Language Education at Jilin University, China and gained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Ken Hyland at the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.

• IntroductionSection I: An Exploration of Text Genres and Interdisciplinary Discourse Features 1. Genre as a Product of Discursive Fusion: A Theoretical Framework for Interdisciplinary RhetoricAmir Kalan2. Intertextual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Texts: A Text-based Analysis of Textual Voice in Citation in Six Undergraduate Dissertations in EducationNatalie Schembri3. Academic Values in Interdisciplinary Research Articles: A Case Study on Adjectives of Importance Natalia Muguiro4. The Development and Inheritance of Authorial Stance in Interdisciplinary Studies: The Case of BioinformaticsJihua Dong and Louisa BuckinghamSection II: Interdisciplinary Approaches to EAP, ESP and Degree Programmes5. Understanding and Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Pedagogical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Graduate-Level EAP Course SequenceJoseph Arthur Davies6. The Practice of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Developing Academic Literacies in an English Medium Degree Programme in Sri Lankan Higher Education Nadee Mahawattha, Romola Rassool and Ramal V. Coorey7. Threshold Crossing into a Disciplinary Voice in the United Arab EmiratesMichelle Bedeker and Amina Gaye8. Bridging the Unknown: Threshold Concepts in Doctoral Research WritingCecile Badenhorst9. A Psycholinguistic Approach to Speech Disfluency Production and Perception in Aviation English ExamsAyşe Altıparmak10. The Embeddedness of Interdisciplinarity in Kenyan Higher Education: Perspectives from Selected Private UniversitiesJane Kinuthia

"This volume offers a new conceptualization of EAP, one grounded in interdisciplinarity. It does so not only by making a case for interdisciplinary EAP research and teaching, but by offering illustrations of what that looks like across the globe."Laura Aull, Writing Program Director & Associate Professor, University of Michigan