2nd Edition

Introducing English for Academic Purposes

By Diane Pecorari, Averil Coxhead Copyright 2025
226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Introducing English for Academic Purposes is an accessible and engaging textbook which presents a wide-ranging introduction to the field, covering the global and institutional position of EAP as well as its manifestations in classrooms and research contexts around the world. The new edition is fully revised and includes expanded and updated discussions on differences across geographical... Read more

Preface to the second edition

 

Introduction    How to use this book

 

SECTION I      THE FIELD OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Chapter 1           The scope of English for academic purposes

Chapter 2          The global context of English for academic purposes

Chapter 3           The institutional contexts of English for academic purposes

 

SECTION II    THE LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Chapter 4           Register, genre, discourse

Chapter 5           Describing academic genres

Chapter 6           Describing academic register

Chapter 7           Studying academic language

 

SECTION III   PLANNING, DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Chapter 8           Approaches informing the teaching of English for academic purposes

Chapter 9           Planning and delivering the English for academic purposes curriculum

Chapter 10        Developing and evaluating English for academic purposes materials and activities

Chapter 11        Assessing English for academic purposes

 

Conclusion: Moving forward into practice

Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Diane Pecorari is Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds, UK. She is co-editor of the Journal of English-Medium Instruction and series editor of Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction.

Averil Coxhead is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research (Routledge, 2018), and co-author of English for Vocational Purposes (Routledge, 2020) and Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size (2021).