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Oxford EAP series
Oxford EAP Upper-Intermediate B2 Student's Book
Oxford EAP prepares learners to study effectively in English at university level, whatever their chosen subject, from pre0sessional courses to postgraduate research.
The course integrates the four main skills and academic language, and features authentic texts from academic and higher education books published by Oxford University Press.
The accompanying DVD-Rom contains both video and audio content, including extracts from real lectures by Oxford University academics, plus student presentations, and seminar discussions.
Oxford EAP also provides practical help in developing essential skills for academic study, such as critical thinking, effective note-taking, citation and referencing, and essay-writing. Learners are encouraged to study independently, and to apply the course content to their chosen discipline.
Oxford EAP is accompanied by a Teacher's Handbook with extensive methodology notes, ideas for additional activities, and full answers to all tasks.
The course integrates the four main skills and academic language, and features authentic texts from academic and higher education books published by Oxford University Press.
The accompanying DVD-Rom contains both video and audio content, including extracts from real lectures by Oxford University academics, plus student presentations, and seminar discussions.
Oxford EAP also provides practical help in developing essential skills for academic study, such as critical thinking, effective note-taking, citation and referencing, and essay-writing. Learners are encouraged to study independently, and to apply the course content to their chosen discipline.
Oxford EAP is accompanied by a Teacher's Handbook with extensive methodology notes, ideas for additional activities, and full answers to all tasks.
238 pages, Paperback
First published May 17, 2012
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May 10, 2018
I use this book for my day job: teaching EAP to international students. Overall it is a good teaching resource, especially because it presents certain elements of EAP (recognizing stance, perspective, and evaluation) quite well. However, it has two main drawbacks:
1. The content is piecemeal. Listening exercises are very short and require students to perform tasks of high cognitive load in a short time. Grammar is presented with an overemphasis on parts of speech.
2. There are no model texts for writing tasks. For instance, the reading text in unit 7 on Culture does not reflect the compare/contrast essay structure presented in the same unit.
The book breaks down the skills reasonably well, and makes noble attempts to draw on authentic texts. However, sometimes these authentic excerpts are not only challenging but outright bizarre (e.g. the reading text on public spaces in unit 8) and do not model the written texts that students are required to produce.
Although the book is a useful framework for an EAP syllabus, it is essential to supplement with high quality materials, especially extended listening texts and model writing texts.
1. The content is piecemeal. Listening exercises are very short and require students to perform tasks of high cognitive load in a short time. Grammar is presented with an overemphasis on parts of speech.
2. There are no model texts for writing tasks. For instance, the reading text in unit 7 on Culture does not reflect the compare/contrast essay structure presented in the same unit.
The book breaks down the skills reasonably well, and makes noble attempts to draw on authentic texts. However, sometimes these authentic excerpts are not only challenging but outright bizarre (e.g. the reading text on public spaces in unit 8) and do not model the written texts that students are required to produce.
Although the book is a useful framework for an EAP syllabus, it is essential to supplement with high quality materials, especially extended listening texts and model writing texts.
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