The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English for Academic Purposes. This is an essential reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of EAP within English, Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

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Notes on the contributors

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

Section 1: Conceptions of EAP

Section 2: Contexts for EAP

Section 3 EAP and language skills

Section 4 Research perspectives

Section 5 Pedagogic genres

Section 6 Research genres

Section 7: Pedagogic contexts

Section 8: Managing learning

Index

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre forApplied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His publicationsinclude Innovation and Change in English Language Education(edited with Lillian Wong, Routledge, 2013), Teaching andResearching Writing, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009) andEnglish for Academic Purpose s (Routledge, 2006).
Philip Shaw is Professor in the Department of English, University of Stockholm,Sweden. He is the co-author of World Englishes: AnIntroduction, 2nd edition (with Gunnel Melchers, 2011).