Making Language Visible in the University

English for Academic Purposes and Internationalisation

By (author) Bee Bond

Publication date:

05 August 2020

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788929295

This book focuses on the nexus of language, disciplinary content and knowledge communication against the background of the economic, cultural and ideological forces of Higher Education’s current push for internationalisation. It suggests the need for a greater synergy between language and content experts and argues that change needs to be implemented through policy rather than on an ad-hoc basis by individual teachers. It is a call to action for English for Academic Purposes practitioners to find a way out of the silo of their own centres and work to assert influence over the wider context in which they work. The book begins and ends in the practice of teaching, with a focus throughout on understanding the barriers and enablers to that practice within a particular context.

Foreword

Introduction: Contextualising the Problem, Defining Terms

Chapter 1. The Accidental Scholar

Chapter 2. Tracing a Student Journey: The Stories of Mai and Lin

Chapter 3. The Taught Post-Graduate Curriculum

Chapter 4. Language and the Academic Curriculum

Chapter 5. Language and Academic Norms

Chapter 6. The Place of English for Academic Purposes

Chapter 7. Language Across the Curriculum

Chapter 8. Implications

Afterword: The Engaged Scholar

References

Index

This volume scrutinises the role of English for Academic Purposes within the university. Through careful and thought-provoking analysis, it reveals a worrying disconnect, but also provides strategies for closing the gap, to the benefit of all stakeholders. This book can inform EAP practitioners' understanding of the role of their subject and should be required reading for all university administrators.