Specialised English

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, Jilin University and Hong Kong University. Lillian L. C. Wong is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She researches innovation and change in English language education, EAP and ESP, and has extensive experience developing, teaching and coordinating undergraduate, postgraduate and teacher education programmes.

Preface Brian Paltridge

Introduction Ken Hyland and Lillian L. C. Wong

Section one: Conceptual issues in specialised language use

1. Academically speaking: English as the Lingua Franca Anna Mauranen

2. What do we mean by ‘Workplace English’? A syllabus framework for course design and assessment Jane Lockwood

3.Genre as interdiscursive performance in English for Professional Communication Vijay K. Bhatia

4. Power in English for Academic Purposes John Flowerdew

5. EAP practitioner identity Alex Ding

Section two: Focus on texts

6. English as a Lingua Franca and Learner English in Disciplinary Writing: A corpus perspective Lynne Flowerdew

7. Academic interaction: Where’s it all going? Ken Hyland

8. Exploring critical thinking in academic and professional writing: A genre-based approach Ian Bruce

9. Vocabulary in university tutorials and laboratories: Corpora and word lists Averil Coxhead and Thi Ngoc Yen Dang

10. Researching the impact of ‘the culture order’ in professional workplace contexts Janet Holmes

11. Multimodal student texts: Implications for ESP Jean Parkinson

Section three: Focus on practice

12. Grappling with the personal statement: Transformation, appropriation, and externalization Ann M. Johns

13. Tools and strategies for Data-Driven Learning (DDL) in the EAP writing classroom Laurence Anthony

14. Implementing disciplinary data-driven learning for postgraduate thesis writing LillianL. C. Wong

15. Academic writing feedback: Collaboration between subject and EAP specialists Jill Northcott

16. Directives in academic writing tutorials: How do different teaching styles affect their use? Ursula Wingate and Eva Ogiermann

17. Seeking supervisor collaboration in a School of Sciences at a Chinese university Yongyan Li and Margaret Cargill

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