The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes

Preface

Ken Hyland and Paul Thompson

PART I Conceptions of EAP

1 General and specific EAP

Ken Hyland

2 Academic literacies: a critical lens for a global academy

Theresa Lillis and Jackie Tuck

3 English as the academic lingua franca 

Anna Mauranen, Niina Hynninen, and Elina Ranta

4 CLIL, EMI, or EAP: What’s the difference?

John Airey

PART II Pedagogic contexts

5 EAP in school settings

Sally Humphrey

6 EAP pedagogy in undergraduate contexts

Zak Lancaster

7 Pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes

William Pearson

8 EAP support for postgraduate students

Yongyan Li

9 EAP at the tertiary level in China

Qi Chen and An Cheng

10 The multi-faceted nature of writing centers in international higher education - adaptable, multilingual, multimodal

Magnus Gustafsson, Mónica Broido, and Neal Lerner

11 English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP)

John Flowerdew 

PART III EAP and language skills

12 Academic reading for writing

Alan Hirvela

13 Language and academic writing: Learning-to-write and writing-to-learn-language perspectives

Rosa M. Manchón

14 Dialogic interaction

Helen Basturkmen

15 Listening to lectures

Katrien L. B. Deroey

16 Acquiring academic vocabulary

Averil Coxhead

PART IV Research perspectives

17 Systemic functional semiotics and EAP

Sue Hood and Lucy Macnaught

18 Corpus studies in EAP

Hilary Nesi

19 Ethnographic perspectives on English for Academic Purposes research

Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield

20 Genre analysis

Philip Shaw

21 Multimodal approaches to English for Academic Purposes

Kay L. O’Halloran, Sabine Tan, and Bradley A. Smith

22 Intercultural rhetoric

Kyle McIntosh, Ulla Connor, and Diego Padilla

23 Critical perspectives

Christopher J. Macallister

24 Diachronic studies in EAP

Ken Hyland and Feng (Kevin) Jiang

PART V Pedagogic genres

25 Lectures

Mercedes Querol-Julián

26 Textbooks

Marina Bondi 

27 Seminars: student and expert research discussions

Marta Aguilar-Pérez

28 Three-Minute thesis presentations

Yanhua Liu and Guangwei Hu

29 PhD defences, vivas, and confirmations

Špela Mežek

30 Digital pedagogic genres

María-José Luzón

PART VI Research genres

31 Genre approaches to theses and dissertations

Paul Thompson

32 The academic poster

Larissa D’Angelo

33 Research articles

Betty Samraj

34 Academic presentations: A multimodal discourse analysis perspective

Gail Forey and Dezheng (William) Feng

35 Digital research genres

Maria Kuteeva

PART VII Pedagogic practices

36 Needs analysis for curriculum design in academic settings

Ana Bocanegra-Valle

37 Materials and tasks for EAP

Eric Friginal and Madhu Neupane-Bastola

38 CALL and AI Literacy

Soobin Yim, Mark Warschauer, and Tamara Tate

39 Intertextuality and plagiarism

Diane Pecorari

40 Corpus-based instruction in EAP

Maggie Charles

41 Online language learning and English for Academic Purposes

Niall Curry and Elaine Riordan

42 Artificial intelligence: Affordances and issues

Peter Crosthwaite

43 Assessment of English for Academic Purposes

Sara Cushing and Margaret Malone

PART VIII The EAP professional

44 EAP teacher education and development

Alex Ding and Bee Bond

45 Expertise in EAP writing instruction 

Alan Hirvela and Diane Belcher

46 Practitioner research into practice in EAP

Anne Burns and Emily Edwards

Biography

Ken Hyland is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has published over 320 articles and 30 books on writing and academic discourse, with over 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. According to the Stanford/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he has been the most influential scholar in language and linguistics for the past 5 years (2021–25). A collection of his work, The Essential Hyland, was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury.

Paul Thompson is Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Corpus Linguistics journal and author of Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Susan Hunston, Routledge 2019).