Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Japan Studies from an English-medium University

This book focuses on appropriate English for Academic Purposes instructional concepts and methods in the Japanese context. It investigates a variety of pedagogical techniques, addressing the fundamental academic English skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing – as well as assessment and materials development. All the research included was conducted in Japanese university settings, thus shedding new light on the effective implementation of EAP teaching and learning activities with Japanese learners of English. This book is of interest to anyone working in an EAP context at the secondary or tertiary level, especially those which include Japanese learners.  

1. Introduction.- 2. What we should know before teaching EAP in Japan:  Influences of high school learning experiences on learning attitudes of English language.- 3. Putting on ‘a mantle of imagination’:  Drama pedagogy for motivating spontaneous speaking in Japanese university students.- 4. Integrated discussion:  Cultivating cross-cultural engagement.- 5. Word recognition and semantic processing by Japanese English learners.- 6. Online and paper-based extensive reading: Perceptions of EAP students.- 7. Meaning making through microblogging in language education.- 8. Increasing autonomy in learners of EAP writing:  An exploratory study.- 9. Argumentative writing among EAP students.- 10. Action research on teaching APA to non-native English freshmen.- 11. Peer feedback across borders.- 12. Developing EAP materials: Transforming learning through in-house textbooks.- 13. Conclusion.

Rachael Ruegg is a lecturer at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated with a PhD in Linguistics, from Macquarie University, Australia.

Clay Williams is an associate professor in the graduate-level English Language Teaching Practices (ELT) program at Akita International University, Japan. He graduated with a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona, U.S.A. His recent books are Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-speaking World: Building Strategies across Scripts and Teaching English in East Asia: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners, both published by Springer.