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The role of IT in English for Academic Purposes: a survey of provison on presessional courses at British universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Huw Jarvis
Affiliation:
University of Salford

Extract

This paper examines the relationship between Information Technology (IT) and an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. This relationship is examined in the context of pre-sessional summer courses at British Universities. The paper provides a rationale for the inclusion of an IT component on an EAP course, and considers why a number of IT areas are not yet being fully exploited by EAP units at British Universities.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1997

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