A Proposed Literature-Based Syllabus for EAP Writing

This paper proposes a literature-based composition course for advanced Non-native English Speaking (NNES) students in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program and provides a rationale, a syllabus, and some suggested pedagogy for consideration. The principal reasons for choosing a literature-ba...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of global education and research (Print) 2019-06, Vol.3 (1)
Hauptverfasser: Perkins, Kyle, Jiang, Xuan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper proposes a literature-based composition course for advanced Non-native English Speaking (NNES) students in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program and provides a rationale, a syllabus, and some suggested pedagogy for consideration. The principal reasons for choosing a literature-based format, in our opinion, include the following: (1) extended writing about texts should lead to reading comprehension improvement; (2) culturally responsive literature should enhance engagement; (3) reading literature will assist NNES students with developing strategies applied to reading-to-write tasks and to integrated writing skills; (4) reading for writing (RFW) will expose NNES students to a wide range of genres, syntactic constructions, discourse structures, and words and word families; (5) RFW should lead to the development of multiple-documents literacy; and (6) contemporary writing models incorporate reading as a component of the composing process, which emphasizes the interdependency of reading and writing.
ISSN:2577-5081