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Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes
Vol. 1:1 (2020) ► pp. 66–78
Perspectives

Teaching ERPP to undergraduate STEM students in Chinese universities?

Addressing contextual realities in an EFL academic environment

| University of Adelaide
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction and context
  • 2.The role of students’ major disciplines in enhancing motivation for EAP learning
  • 3.Adapting ERPP workshop-based teaching to classroom-based EAP
    • 3.1The genre pedagogy ‘wheel’ as a teaching framework
    • 3.2A contribution from corpus linguistics
  • 4.Concluding remarks
  • Note
  • References


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Published online: 20 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.19011.car
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