Introduction
The concern for learning academic English has seen a rise rapidly, as increasingly, non-native speakers of English are becoming part of academic institutions in the global context which creates interest in the field of academic English teaching (Charles & Pecorari, 2016, p.20). This report will present four annotated bibliographies dealing with issues in English for academic purposes.
Annotated Bibliographies
Coxhead, A. (2000). A New Academic Wordlist. TESOL Quarterly 34(2), 213-230.
The purpose of the author in this paper is to help teachers and students of academic English by providing them with a ready list for reference at a tertiary level, that is, at the time of self-study.
In this study, the author has attempted to come up with a method that can help to derive a vocabulary specific to academic English, an academic word list (AWL), based on large corpus of words. In doing this, the author consulted a …show more content…
After discussing some of the common features across these disciplines, the author discusses ESL and EAP writing programs in the universities, and the contributions of scholars to the same. Her argument is that students from across disciplines often are made to attend similar or the same programs based on research by ESL or EAP experts. The point she argues based on this context and literature discussed is that instruction in any particular discipline regarding how to write in it is best left to teachers of that particular discipline, who is more suited for the job than any language expert. The task of L2 English writing teachers, on the other hand, is to acquaint a study with the abstract principles that lie behind writing in academic