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CATEGORIES:Second Language Education Group
SUMMARY:Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learni
 ng and Teaching 2019  Specificity\, Academic Writi
 ng and EAP - Professor Ken Hyland\, University of 
 East Anglia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191111T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191111T183000
UID:TALK129589AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/129589
DESCRIPTION:In this paper I argue that the idea of disciplinar
 y specific language should help inform all English
  for Academic Purposes teaching at university. Dra
 wing on studies of lexis\, genre\, tutor expectati
 ons and course assignments\, I show how successful
  writing in English depends on having some control
  over the discourse of your discipline and that th
 is can provide the basis of undergraduate teaching
 . This approach recognizes that because the conven
 tions of academic communication differ considerabl
 y across disciplines\, identifying the particular 
 language features\, discourse practices\, and comm
 unicative skills of target groups becomes central 
 to teaching English in universities.  Teachers the
 refore had to become researchers of the genres the
 y teach and to devise courses around ‘specificity’
 . To illustrate the idea with real examples\, I wi
 ll discuss briefly the curriculum devised at Hong 
 Kong University to support students following the 
 curriculum reform of 2012 which added an extra yea
 r to students’ university lives.  The paper theref
 ore draws on my research over the last decade to h
 ighlight the disciplinary-specific nature of writi
 ng and argues for a specific view of teaching EAP.
   \n\n\nKen Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguis
 tics in education at the University of East Anglia
 . He was previously a professor at UCL/IOE and the
  university of Hong Kong and has taught in Africa\
 , Asia and Europe. He is best known for his resear
 ch into writing and academic discourse\, having pu
 blished 240 articles and 28 books on these topics 
 with 45\,000 citations on Google Scholar. A collec
 tion of his work was published as The Essential Hy
 land (Bloomsbury\, 2018). He is the Editor of the 
 Bloomsbury Discourse Series and Routledge Innovati
 ons and Challenges in Applied Linguistics\, was fo
 unding co-editor of the Journal of English for Aca
 demic Purposes and co-editor of Applied Linguistic
 s. Ken is Visiting Professor at Jilin University\,
  China. \n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB2 8PQ\, Room 1S3
CONTACT:Ann Waterman
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