 EAP means English for academic purposes

entails training students , to use language

appropriately for study .

 It is a branch of applied linguistic consisting of a

significant body of research into effective
teaching.

 methods of analysis of the academic language

needs of students .
 There are three main parts of EAP,

Background Research practice

 first came into general use through the
British organization SELMOUS(Special
English Language materials for Overseas
University Students) which was formed in
1972.

 first characterized by Strevens. He saw EAP

as a branch the larger field of ESP(English
for Specific purposes)
 English for academic purposes  General English

 Begins with the learners and the  Begins with the language.
situation.

 Focus on reading and writing .  Focus on speaking and listening.

 Tend to Teach learners

 It tend to Teach formal academic conventional and social genres of
genres. the language.
 It is fundamental to an EAP approach to
course design and teaching.
 The study situation is more specific ,many of
the same areas of study skills are still taught
but with particular attention to the language
used in the specific disciplinary context
identified in the needs analysis .
 There are three types of language levels,
 • Lexical and grammatical , structural features.
Register

• The effect of communicative context, the

relationship between text/discourse and its
Discourse speakers, writers , hearers, readers.

• How language is used in a particular setting

such as research papers, dissertations formal
Genre lectures.
Macro level analysis
• Analysis of genres which are elements
of texts such as paper introduction.
Micro level analysis
• Master’s work on the use of active
verbs in scientific text.
 A main activity of Specialists in EAP is
materials design and development.

 It is also focus on the language skills

Separately the rules and strategies of
academic skills are not like those of the
general language skills.