Understanding and Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Pedagogical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Graduate-Level EAP Course Sequence
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2023-01-01
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Over the past 30 years, the popularity of interdisciplinary approaches to academic study has grown. At the same time, there is a growing consensus that English for academic purposes (EAP) courses should move away from teaching ‘general’ study skills and instead teach discipline-specific academic literacies. For instructors of graduate-level EAP courses, these seemingly contradictory trends can pose challenges for curriculum design and instruction. This chapter presents an interdisciplinary pedagogical model for a two-course EAP sequence taught at a newly formed Sino-foreign joint venture university. While both EAP courses are designed to help students develop interdisciplinary awareness, they do so in different ways depending on whether the focus is on academic oral or written communication skills. Faculty and student feedback on the course sequence is discussed, leading to several recommendations that could be easily adapted in other teaching contexts and for other student populations.
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Joseph Arthur Davies
Joseph Davies is Senior Lecturer of English Language and Assistant Director for Graduate English for Academic Purposes at Duke Kunshan University's Language and Culture Center. Joseph's current research interests are in higher education assessment, focusing on feedback, specifically second language student feedback literacy, teacher feedback literacy, and feedback culture within Sino-foreign higher education contexts. His research has been published in academic journals such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Joseph is also a founding core lab member of Duke Kunshan University's Institute for Global Higher Education (IGHE) pedagogical research and practice lab. He holds a First Class B.Sc. (honors) in forensic science and an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with Applied Linguistics. He also holds a University of Cambridge DELTA qualification and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Joseph has over 15 years' experience designing, managing and teaching academic and professional English-language and teacher training courses throughout China and in the UK. Joseph has lectured at New York University Shanghai and previously served as business development lead for one of the UK's largest universities, establishing, maintaining, and enhancing academic partnerships throughout China.
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