Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Japan

Rachael Ruegg is a lecturer at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated with a PhD in Linguistics, from Macquarie University, Australia. Clay Williams is an associate professor in the graduate-level English Language Teaching Practices (ELT) program at Akita International University, Japan. He graduated with a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona, U.S.A. His recent books are Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-speaking World: Building Strategies across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners, both published by Springer.

1. Introduction.- 2. What we should know before teaching EAP in Japan:  Influences of high school learning experiences on learning attitudes of English language.- 3. Putting on ‘a mantle of imagination’:  Drama pedagogy for motivating spontaneous speaking in Japanese university students.- 4. Integrated discussion:  Cultivating cross-cultural engagement.- 5. Word recognition and semantic processing by Japanese English learners.- 6. Online and paper-based extensive reading: Perceptions of EAP students.- 7. Meaning making through microblogging in language education.- 8. Increasing autonomy in learners of EAP writing:  An exploratory study.- 9. Argumentative writing among EAP students.- 10. Action research on teaching APA to non-native English freshmen.- 11. Peer feedback across borders.- 12. Developing EAP materials: Transforming learning through in-house textbooks.- 13. Conclusion.