Engish For acadimic purposrs :- Liz hamp lyons

What is EAP

             English for academic purposes (EAP) entails training students, usually in a higher education setting, to use language appropriately for study. It is one of the most common forms of English for specific purposes (ESP).

               An EAP program focuses instruction on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas generally encountered in a university setting. In common with most language teaching, EAP instruction teaches vocabulary, grammar and the four skills (reading, writing, speaking - including pronunciation - and listening), but usually tries to tie these to the specific study needs of students; for example, a writing lesson would focus on writing essays rather than, say, business letters.

The languages in attended to at the levels of :-

1) Register

2) Discourse

3) Genre

                      Needs analysis is fudamental to EAP aaproach to cours desing and teaching . If a general aaproch to an EAP coure is taken the course usually consists primarily of study skills practice with an academic register and style in the practive texts and materials.

                       Engish language teachers recognise at the beginning of their EAP teaching .