Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Everything matters when it comes to English for Academic Purposes (EAP): student demographics, pedagogies, institutional policy, textbooks, and multimodality use, to name a few.EAP has attracted much scholarly attention with the influx of international students in countries like Canada and the United States.For example, Benesch (2001) highlights the significance of critical EAP and claims that "critical EAP offers alternatives to unquestioning obedience, assuming that students have the right to interrogate the demands they face" and allows students to "examine externally imposed demands and negotiate their responses to them" (p.53).Although many existing studies focus on critical EAP, the intersection between specific meaning-making of critical EAP and EAP teachers' knowledge of how language and power interact warrants more studies (Crookes, 2015).Additionally, one problem of the EAP research is the "paucity of practical examples of critical pedagogy in classroom practices that can serve as a guide to interested practitioners" (Chun, 2015: 102).Chun's new book fills the void in many ways.Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday effectively captures the rich nuances of EAP classroom practices.It is based on a year-long collaboration between Chun and Emilia, an EAP instructor, in her
Source: ESP Today
Author: Hairong Shang-Butler
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2565286809