Professional Purposes
Aims to develop
communication skills in
written and oral form.
What is EAPP?
Provides language instruction for
academic study.
Involves the use of language skills
and academic skills.
Language Skills
Listening comprehension
Fluency development
Oral intelligibility
Reading
Grammar
Writing
Vocabulary development
4 main skills
Writing
Listening
Reading
Speaking
Academic Study Skills
Test taking and note taking skills
Academic vocabulary usage
Critical reading and writing
comprehending academic lectures
research and library skills
formal compositions forms and
development
Academic Text
written by professionals who
specialized in specific fields.
Clear, direct to the point,
focused has a particular
structure and is always
supported by evidence.
Formal and objective
Based on facts with solid
basis.
Non-Academic Texts
Can be written by anyone
Fiction
Language used may contain slangs
and informal.
Example of Academic Writing
Literary Analysis
Examines evaluates and makes an
argument about a literary work.
Requires careful close reading.
Research Paper
Uses outside information to support
a thesis.
Dissertation
A book length summarization of the
doctoral candidates research
Academic Text Structures
The Three Part Essay
Consist of introduction, body and
conclusion
Introduction: clearly tell the
reader the topic, purpose and
structure of the paper.
Body (heart): “whats in the
topic?”
Conclusion: MIRROR IMAGE
THE IMRaD Structure
-Introduction, methods, results and
discussion
The Purpose of doing an academic
writing
- To inform,
- To persuade and,
- To argue a specific point
Academic Language
-Used in textbooks, in classrooms on
tests, and in each discipline.
What is a difference between academic
language and social language?
