The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes

Proposal abstract: This chapter addresses the question of how universities organise out-of-class, additional academic support for EAP students. In many institutions, language centres assist students in developing their listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills for academic English. In the United States there is also a long tradition of university writing centres, whose tutors work individually with both native and non-native speakers of English on learning to write critically and academically in English. More recently, interest in writing centres and dedicated academic writing tutoring has grown in Europe and the UK, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world, and has brought with it…