Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Brian Paltridge -- Introduction / Ken Hyland & Lillian L.C . Wong -- Academically speaking : English as the lingua franca / Anna M auranen -- What do we mean by "workplace English?" : a syllabus framewo rk for course design and assessment / Jane Lockwood -- Genre as interdi scursive performance in English for professional communication / Vijay K. Bhatia -- Power in English for academic purposes / John Flowerdew -- EAP practitioner identity / Alex Ding -- Academic interaction : where' s it all going? / Ken Hyland -- Exploring critical thinking in academic and professional writing : a genre-based approach / Ian Bruce -- Vocab ulary in university tutorials and laboratories : corpora and word lists / Avril Coxhead & Thi Ngoc Yen Dang -- Researching the impact of "the culture order" in professional workplace contexts / Janet Holmes -- Mul timodal student texts : implications for ESP / Jean Parkinson -- Grappl ing with the personal statement : transformation, appropriation, and ex ternalization / Ann M. Johns -- Tools and strategies for data-driven le arning (DDL) in the EAP writing classroom / Laurence Anthony -- Impleme nting disciplinary data-driven learning for postgraduate thesis writing / Lillian L.C. Wong -- English as a lingua franca and learner English in disciplinary writing : a corpus perspective / Lynn Flowerdew -- Acad emic writing feedback : collaboration between subject and EAP specialis ts / Jill Northcott -- Directives in academic writing tutorials : how d o different teaching styles affect their use? / Ursula Wingate and Eva Ogiermann -- Seeking supervisor collaboration in a school of sciences a t a Chinese university / Yongyan Li and Margaret Cargill.

"Specialised English : New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Pr actice provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the latest avenues of research and practice in the dynamic field of Specialised E nglish. Ken Hyland and Lillian Wong present 17 specially commissioned c hapters by some of the world's leading experts to offer discussions of key topics in research, theory and pedagogy from a variety of internati onal perspectives. Divided into three sections which focus on conceptua l issues, text, and classroom practice, this book: Offers a clear and a ccessible introduction to current issues in EAP and ESP, including acad emic interaction, academic lingua franca, second language publishing, w orkplace talk, practitioner identity, data-driven learning and critical thinking; Includes studies of a range of genres such as research artic les and student reports, student spontaneous speech, personal statement s, builders' diaries and university tutorials; Presents links between t heory and practice with a sampling of different research methodologies, practical applications and theoretical approaches. Specialised English is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate st udents and researchers in EAP/ESP and applied linguistics, as well as p re- and in-service teachers and teacher educators"-- Provided by pub lisher.