specificity and eap writing 

academic vocabulary, collocation patterns metadiscourse such as hedges, boosters and first person pronouns, directives across disciplines.

tutor expectations via interviews.

acquiring the specialized competencies.

Flipped classroom

mini-lecture:pre-, watch, post-video.

centrifugal, centripedal forces.

drug information project

community

writing: engaging with others in a community

core university english school-based english vs disciplinary study

english in the dicipline : paralel with a subject study

lexis 6.2 million word corpus

genre features: soft VS hard science

self-mention/priority and personal contribution

procedures /equipmemt

citation :linear

self-ciataion:

hedges:

directives:

tutor expectation:  grammar /disciplinary writing clarity of thought

assignment task

13 different genre families 

comprehension reflection questions

indentify moves  optional/ compulsory

new type pf lieracy

Background in HK University 

A LEAP IN THR DARK 

6 credits of EGAP 6 credits of "English in the Discilpine" 

conventions of academic communication differ across discilpines

A center in teaching English in university : Focus on language features,discourse practices, and communicative skills of target 

Discipline : a trouble concept, sensitive to the ways genres are written and responded to by individuals acting AS MEMBERS OF SOCIAL GROUPS. 

communicative competence in applied linguistics, situated learning in education and social constructionism in social sciences and holds a focus on community at the heart of communication.

Langugae is how disciplines conduct their business, define their boundaries and manage their interactions.

Writing is not just words on a page or screen, it means engaging with others in a community ,it is something inside and interesting and real.

New courses: 

1.Core University English :aims at bridge the gap between school-base English and disciplinary studies,resources to do differ from writing in school.

Academic English tends to be explicit about its structure and purpose;sopport arguments with citations;focus on actions rather than actors;use few rhetorical questions;be intolerant of digressions;be cautious in making claims; package process as things; spell out steps in argument and connections between sentences ,which means students are told of nominalization impersonalization,connectives, hedging,citation

2. English in the Discipline

parallel with a subject/concept  course :doing histoory" introduction to Linguistis

Disciplinarr Composite course Civil Engineering Chinese Medicine' specific approach to English 

Evidence from 4 sources : lexis, genre, tutor expectations and different assignments .

common core ignores multiple meanings (Ha&Hylabd,2007) 6.2 million word corpus from economics and finance, 837 words which had a specific meaning, even if they had a general meaning too.(asset,risk,interest,income)

A:lecture lexis(Thompson,2008)

Base lecture corpus:

60% of "economy"in social sciences 65% of "vary" in physical sciences 50% of "respond" in life sciences

B:Genre Features