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1、ResearchinEnglishforAcademicPurposesAbstract:EAPisthemainbranchofESPandEAPisdefinedas“anyEnglishteachingthatrelatestoastudypurpose”.FourtypesofEAPsituationshouldbeconsideredwhenwepracticeEAPteachingintertiarylevelcontext:EAPinanEnglish-speakingcountry,EAPinESL(
2、Englishasasecondlanguage)situations,EAPsituationsinwhichcertainsubjectsaretaughtinEnglishandEAPsituationswheresubjectcoursesaretaughtinthenationallanguage.Today’sEAPteachingpracticeemploysanumberofapproachestohighlightthelanguageanddiscourseofparticularacademic
3、genresratherthanthatinacademictext.Keywords:EnglishforAcademicPurposes(EAP);EnglishforSpecificPurposes(ESP);EnglishforOccupationalPurposes(EOP);SettingsofEAP;studyskillsWhatisEAPEnglishforSpecificPurposes(ESP),accordingtowheytheytakeplaceordisciplineandprofessi
4、onalarea,istraditionallydividedintotwoareas:EnglishforAcademicPurposes(EAP)andEnglishforOccupationalPurposes(EOP)(Dudley-Evans,T.,&StJohn,M.,1998).SoitisclearthatEAPisthemainbranchofESPandEAPisdefinedas“anyEnglishteachingthatrelatestoastudypurpose”(Dudley-Evans
5、&StJohn,1998,p.34).Otherscholarsgavetheirdefinitions,too.Forexample,“EAPisconcernedwiththosecommunicativeskillsinEnglishwhicharerequiredforstudypurposesinformaleducationalsystems”(Jordan,1997,p.1).ThehistoryanddevelopmentofEAPEAPteachingpracticehaswidelycarried
6、outforalmost30years.EveryEnglishlanguageteacherofaroundnone-nativestudentsinacademiccontextswouldchoosetoteach“withaviewtothecontextratherthanonlytothelanguage”(Hamp-Lyons,2001,p.126).Theterm“EnglishforAcademicPurposes”wasfirstintroducedin1974andputintogeneralu
7、sein1975(Jordan,1997).Initshistory,theBritishorganizationSELMOUS(SpecialEnglishLanguageMaterialsforOverseasUniversityStudents)contributedalot.ThepublishedpapersofitsannualmeetingwasentitledEnglishforacademicpurposes(CowieandHeaton,1977,citedinJordan,1997,p.1).L
8、aterin1989,SELMOUSbecameBALEAP(BritishAssociationofLecturersinEnglishforAcademicPurposes)andtheprofessionalismintheteachingofEAPattertiarylevelwasthenpromoted.Besides,itisSt