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?
