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In order to address this problem, discipline-specific tasks were integrated into an EGAP context and the effects evaluated. It is often difficult to relate such EGAP content to students' academic disciplines or to address their academic needs in classes which contain students from a range of academic backgrounds. Because of the variety of academic backgrounds of students entering these courses, classes take the form of English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP), which mostly comprise study-skills based approaches.

Indika Liyanage and Gary Birch The number of international students who come from non-English speaking backgrounds to countries where English is the first language is on the rise, necessitating the provision of English for Academic Purpose (EAP) courses to prepare such students to study in English-speaking institutions.

QJER 17, 2001: Liyanage and Birch - English for general academic purposes - discipline-specific needsĮnglish for general academic purposes: Catering to discipline-specific needs

English for academic purposes r jordan in pdf