Introducing English for Academic Purposes

Diane Pecorari is Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds, UK. She is co-editor of the Journal of English-Medium Instruction and series editor of Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction.Averil Coxhead is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research (Routledge, 2018), and co-author of English for Vocational Purposes (Routledge, 2020) and Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size (2021).

• Preface to the second editionIntroduction How to use this bookSECTION I THE FIELD OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSESChapter 1 The scope of English for academic purposesChapter 2 The global context of English for academic purposesChapter 3 The institutional contexts of English for academic purposesSECTION II THE LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSESChapter 4 Register, genre, discourseChapter 5 Describing academic genresChapter 6 Describing academic registerChapter 7 Studying academic languageSECTION III PLANNING, DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSESChapter 8 Approaches informing the teaching of English for academic purposesChapter 9 Planning and delivering the English for academic purposes curriculumChapter 10 Developing and evaluating English for academic purposes materials and activitiesChapter 11 Assessing English for academic purposesConclusion: Moving forward into practiceGlossaryReferencesIndex