Writing in English for Academic Purposes: challenges for teachers (and how to overcome them)
Martin Hewings
21st November 2012, 15:00 GMT
Shona Whyte
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Discourse domain approach to teaching ESP and application to task-based university courses.
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Slides from a conference presentation I gave at the ESP workshop during the French annual conference of university English teachers and researchers. http://saes2013.u-bourgogne.fr/ateliers/41-atelier-23-anglais-de-specialite-geras.html
I argue that we can use the notion of discourse domain to inform task-based teaching for all kinds of ESP, including students who are traditionally classified as "specialist" (pre-service EFL teachers) and "non-specialist" or "specialists in other disciplines" (LANSAD; or usual ESP fields such as medicine, law etc.). 
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May 21, 4:20 AM
Un travail de recherche à partir de cours hybride pour étudiants LANSAD en master et doctorants. Article ici : http://asp.revues.org/ (mars 2013) Delete the scoop?
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Call for ContributionsNew Ways in Teaching Business English Deadline EXTENDED: 1 June 2013 The volume will adopt the at-a-glance, simple lesson plan format used in other volumes in the New Ways Series (see, e.g., sample pages from New Ways in Teaching Reading).
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Infolettre du Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité. Delete the scoop?
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"Academic English Online is a new web-based resource of materials designed for students of Queen Mary (University of London) to develop and broaden their skills in academic English." Via Steve Kirk, Roxane Harrison
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This looks like a very rich resource suitable for intermediate university learners and above. Content is divided into Writing, Reading, Speaking and Grammar, and presented in short sections with activities for learners and feedback which can be hidden or revealed. 
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December 11, 2012 3:03 PM
Queen Mary's University, London, have now made available for free a set of online EAP resources for supplementary study. These were previously developed and only made availablje internally to QMUL students. The task bank is now open access. 
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January 23, 5:13 AM
Slightly outside the usual scope of this page but may be useful. Delete the scoop?
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Dans le cadre du congrès annuel de la SAES, les présidents de l’atelier Anglais de spécialité– GERAS, Anne Magnet de l’Université de Bourgogne et Michel Van der Yeught de l’Université d’Aix-Marseille, lancent un appel à communications sur le thème choisi par l’atelier : « Aspects de l’appellation dans l’expression linguistique du spécialisé – Implications linguistiques, discursives, culturelles et didactiques en anglais de spécialité ». Delete the scoop?
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Paste in a text and it produces an analysis with the words colour-coded for their vocabulary level. Via Robin Yu 
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January 16, 7:03 AM
A fascinating tool that teachers can use to classify words in any text. Highlights common general English words, academic words etc using different colours.
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On the website of Laurence Anthony. Associate Professor at Waseda University Japan developer of AntConc, a freeware concordancer software program for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X
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Used in SGADS (Sensibilité de la Grammaire Anglaise au Degré de Spécialisation) research (Pic, Furmaniak, Debras) at the Sorbonne. See also June workshop to mark "the end of the SGADS project (Grammatical variation across academic genres), a project founded by the Research Council of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and coordinated by Elsa Pic and Grégory Furmaniak (http://www.univ-paris3.fr/2012-2013-du-discours-specialise-au-discours-vulgarise-sensibilite-de-la-grammaire-anglaise-au-degre-de-specialisation-140801.kjsp). The aim of the workshop is to present the main results from the project but also to extend the discussion to other related issues." http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1028.html Delete the scoop?
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"ASp publishes peer-reviewed research articles and reviews related to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for both teaching and research. The thematic and non-thematic issues aim to give an insight into the specifics of ESP, notably in its linguistic, discursive, cultural and didactic aspects, and also to develop our knowledge of the various specific English registers used for different purposes."
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I have a paper in Volume 63, but it's not open access:
Shona Whyte: Teaching ESP: A task-based framework for French graduate courses Delete the scoop?
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"I think there are two kinds of e-AP tool: those that connect fairly directly to teaching practice, and those that can help inform, organise and build EAP teacher scholarly knowledge."
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The role of technology in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) - application of the TPACK framework, and call for integration, stability, open practices ... Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: Paul Nation has a huge number of publications on vocabulary, particularly in relation to second language learning and teaching. Many of the older articles are available for free download. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: This search engine allows you to access the database of European legislation in any EU language and it brings up texts which are available in at least two languages.
My colleague Margarita Georgieva who teaches translation at the University of Nice explains:
"If you are looking for legislative texts or any specialized texts, there is a database of translations which has both English and French versions - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ Delete the scoop?
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Nice set of tools and activities for English for Academic Purposes.
Robin Yu's comment,
January 16, 7:01 AM
The word lists can be found elsewhere but the highlighter tools and gap-fill maker are unique tools from Nottingham.
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