Do we need discipline-specific or general academic English for the EMI classrooms?

Awad Alhassan @Awad-Alhassan

01 January 2021 1 6K Report

Rekindling the old EGAP/ESAP debate of the EAP in the English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts.

Nigel Harwood

A few thoughts which you may find relevant here:

https://teachingeap.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/restes-talk-nigel-harwood.pdf

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