A review of tertiary-level writing courses in Singapore: pedagogical approaches and practices

While there have been several studies on primary and secondary English education in Singapore, less research has done academic writing courses at the tertiary level. This study presents results of a survey, which aimed to find out pedagogical approaches skills prioritized by tertiary-level teachers Singapore. The project was guided following questions: (1) What is dominant approach teaching Singapore? (2) are educational backgrounds Singapore does this relate that inform their teaching? (3) practices do these prioritize work they as learning outcomes? (4) typical assignments, class sizes, loads for Singaporean writing/communication classes? suggest most classes background linguistics take an Academic Purposes (EAP) approach; however, also some evidence blended between EAP composition studies. proposes that, students become more proficient English, may present best way forward