TITLE:
Instruction of English for Academic Purposes for Freshman Non-English Majors: Perspective and Practice
AUTHORS:
Dahu Zheng
KEYWORDS:
EAP Teaching, Secondary Research, Academic Awareness, Freshman Non-English Majors
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.13 No.2,
February
22,
2022
ABSTRACT: An increasing number of universities in China have offered EAP (English for Academic Purposes) to university students. However, issues as to what and how to teach academic English to freshman non-English majors remain unaddressed. This paper, adopted secondary research method, is intended to explore the deficiency Chinese college students may have in participating in communication in the academic community. The result shows that inability to think critically, lack of genre awareness, deficiency in understanding features of academic discourse and the linguistic features of English scientific and technical papers, improper literature citation and inaccurate expression of stance are a major threat to academic progress and success. The paper suggests that six aspects of academic awareness should be raised, and academic skills related be developed when EAP program is offered to freshman non-English majors, in hope of providing insights for the effective implementation of academic English teaching in China.