Learning EAP at university: Perceptions of high-achieving first-year ESL undergraduates

Learning EAP at university: Perceptions of high-achieving first-year ESL undergraduates

• Yung, Wai Ho Kevin The Education University of Hong Kong
• Fong, Natalie The University of Hong Kong

ELT Journal, 2019

Oxford University Press

2019

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文
    • GBA 教學目標、課程及評鑑
• N 學生與學生服務
  • NC 學生特徵和境況；學生意見與態度、學生適應問題

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 專上教育

This study focuses on the perceptions of learning EAP of first-year undergraduates with high ESL proficiency admitted to an English-medium university in Hong Kong. Two in-depth individual interviews were conducted with nine participants and their written assignments were analysed. The data reveal several challenges facing the high achievers in learning EAP. One evident aspect is how to properly cite academic sources. The participants struggled with selecting suitable texts from sources, paraphrasing them, and using them to support their arguments. They also perceived a need to abandon the recited formulaic expressions which may have helped them score highly in the secondary school examination. This study reveals gaps between the English learnt in secondary school and EAP and offers insight into what first-year students need when they transition from secondary school to university studies. It argues that EAP should be made an essential component of first-year undergraduate programmes. Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

• 英文

期刊論文

• 09510893

• 10.1093/elt/ccz019

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/6291dab6

2019-12-09