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SUMMARY:Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 
 2019  Specificity\, Academic Writing and EAP - Professor Ken Hyland\, Univ
 ersity of East Anglia
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In this paper I argue that the idea of disciplinary specific l
 anguage should help inform all English for Academic Purposes teaching at u
 niversity. Drawing on studies of lexis\, genre\, tutor expectations and co
 urse assignments\, I show how successful writing in English depends on hav
 ing some control over the discourse of your discipline and that this can p
 rovide the basis of undergraduate teaching. This approach recognizes that 
 because the conventions of academic communication differ considerably acro
 ss disciplines\, identifying the particular language features\, discourse 
 practices\, and communicative skills of target groups becomes central to t
 eaching English in universities.  Teachers therefore had to become researc
 hers of the genres they teach and to devise courses around ‘specificity
 ’. To illustrate the idea with real examples\, I will discuss briefly th
 e curriculum devised at Hong Kong University to support students following
  the curriculum reform of 2012 which added an extra year to students’ un
 iversity lives.  The paper therefore draws on my research over the last de
 cade to highlight the disciplinary-specific nature of writing and argues f
 or a specific view of teaching EAP.  \n\n\nKen Hyland is Professor of Appl
 ied Linguistics in education at the University of East Anglia. He was prev
 iously a professor at UCL/IOE and the university of Hong Kong and has taug
 ht in Africa\, Asia and Europe. He is best known for his research into wri
 ting and academic discourse\, having published 240 articles and 28 books o
 n these topics with 45\,000 citations on Google Scholar. A collection of h
 is work was published as The Essential Hyland (Bloomsbury\, 2018). He is t
 he Editor of the Bloomsbury Discourse Series and Routledge Innovations and
  Challenges in Applied Linguistics\, was founding co-editor of the Journal
  of English for Academic Purposes and co-editor of Applied Linguistics. Ke
 n is Visiting Professor at Jilin University\, China. \n
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