Interest in language variation is a staple of English for Academic Purposes research and underpins its distinctive character as field inquiry. It the specific nature use which defines EAP, yet this definition has been established almost entirely on basis inter-discoursal studies, with comparisons register, genre, discipline, first language, etc. dominating our understanding. In paper we take di...

Despite the significant research on effectiveness and challenges of emergency remote teaching (ERT) during global COVID-19 pandemic, few studies have focused systematic facilitation positive emotions by classroom teachers. This study aimed to identify strategies that teachers English for Academic Purposes (EAP) used ERT period, interviewing 18 university in Hong Kong. Our results suggest one tr...

one of the challenges of academic writing is the creation of a structurally and communicatively well-organized and coherent text. metadiscourse enables authors of journal articles to achieve this goal by raising the writers‘ awareness about discourse features which can contribute to a better academic content production. also, l1 background has always been a hot topic in applied linguistics and ...

The massive increase in the use of English Medium Instruction (EMI) universities around world has been accompanied by an ever-growing body publications. majority focus on EMI policies, teacher identities, and teachers’ students’ attitudes towards EMI, whilst there seems to be little research into pedagogical approaches language literacy support for students as well practices education, areas th...

While numerous studies have scrutinized the rhetorical structures of Research Articles (RAs) through move analysis, it appears that Move Recycling (MR) across RA sections has received little attention. The current study sought to fill this gap by investigating whether recycling Objective (study purposes/questions/hypotheses) in Discussion sections, which was previously used Introduction, is vul...