English for Academic Purposes

Practical and Theoretical Approaches

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736945821
• Print ISBN:
  9783954045822
• Edition: 1

This volume represents the final outgrowth of the confluence of two methodological strands: The study of academic writing in a Central European context on the one side and the dialogue that was enabled through the activities within the project framework of Saxon-Czech cooperation on the other. The volume has a tripartite, top-down structure that considers the problems and obvious shortcomings of the field at first from a theoretical, then from an applied perspective. Therefore we start out with considerations more at home in the methodology of science and epistemology, move toward applications with empirical studies and finally observe trends in putting this into practice in teaching. The major questions raised by the theory of academic writing revolve traditionally around stylistic features and text-linguistic considerations. Most authors in this volume, however, have also practiced academic writing. The picture emerging from this is therefore necessarily a heterogeneous one but one that undergoes sequential refinement in the course of the volume.

Table of contents

• Contents
• PREFACE
• THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE IN SPACE
• ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES:CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE CURRICULUM1
• DISCOURSES OF KNOWLEDGE: CULTURAL DISJUNCTIONS AND THEIRIMPLICATIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE INDUSTRIES
• II. Theoretical approaches: Empirical Perspectives
• CROSS-CULTURAL HEDGES?A COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC WRITING BYNON-NATIVE AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH
• SENTENCE ADVERBIALS IN ACADEMIC TEXTS: PREFERENCES OF NATIVEVS. NON-NATIVE WRITERS
• ACADEMIC ENGLISH FROM A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE
• ARGUMENTATIVE PATTERNS OF SPECIALIZED ACADEMIC DISCOURSEPRODUCED IN ENGLISH BY RUSSIAN SCHOLARS
• III. Practical Approaches: Applications in Teaching
• DESIGNING COURSES ON ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
• INSIGHTS INTO ENGLISH FOR CHILD-REARING PURPOSES (ECRP):ENGLISH FOR GERMAN CHILDCARE GIVERS
• FROM ESP TO ICC:WHY BUSINESS AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONREPLACED BUSINESS ENGLISH AT THE TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG’SFAKULTÄT FÜR WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN
• THE EPOSTL AS A STIMULUS FOR REFLECTIVE TEACHING