TY - CHAP
T1 - Surviving a crash course in EAP writing
T2 - a Cambodian experience
AU - Moore, Stephen H.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This chapter describes how I, as a relatively inexperienced English for academic purposes (EAP) teacher, survived the writing component of an intensive EAP course. It also describes the pathway to survival for the learners, none of whom had ever previously studied EAP. Survival seems to me the most fitting description of our situation, as we were all under intense pressure from the principle stakeholders – the people funding the program and my teaching institution – to perform well and, indeed, to aim high and actually overachieve. In the end, the surviving cohort of learners attained a reasonable level of proficiency in writing academic English, and I lived to teach another day.
AB - This chapter describes how I, as a relatively inexperienced English for academic purposes (EAP) teacher, survived the writing component of an intensive EAP course. It also describes the pathway to survival for the learners, none of whom had ever previously studied EAP. Survival seems to me the most fitting description of our situation, as we were all under intense pressure from the principle stakeholders – the people funding the program and my teaching institution – to perform well and, indeed, to aim high and actually overachieve. In the end, the surviving cohort of learners attained a reasonable level of proficiency in writing academic English, and I lived to teach another day.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781931185400
T3 - TESOL language curriculum development series
SP - 221
EP - 238
BT - Planning and teaching creatively within a required curriculum for adult learners
A2 - Burns, Anne
A2 - de Silva Joyce, Helen
PB - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
CY - Alexandria, Va.
ER -