ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain matters as the composition of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classes, EAP and second language acquisition, EAP methodologies, particularly those that interface with task-based learning and rhetorical consciousness raising, aspects of EAP course objectives and materials design. It describes the educational contexts of EAP teaching and learning, reviews a sample of academic literacy research, and discusses ways in which this research improves today's EAP instructional practice through exploration of aspects of second language learning. One advantage for the EAP instructor is that, with the availability of corpora like Corpus of Contemporary American English Academic or a web-crawler like Google Scholar, finding suitable examples is made much easier and much quicker. The chapter emphasizes the benefits of corpus-informed pedagogical materials to raise students' awareness of the rhetorical organization of RA sections and the forms and functions of highly frequent multi-word constructions across rhetorical moves/steps.
