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Building on previous chapters, which emphasised the importance of practitioner involvement in academic communities, Ding and Bruce consider the nature and role of EAP (English for Academic Purposes) communities, including the inward connections among practitioners and their communities and the outward relations between the communities and the wider power structures of universities and governmental systems. As an example of a functioning EAP community, they discuss the United Kingdom’s BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) organisation, including its development and its current focus on curriculum and professionalism, and consider the potential advocacy roles that such an organisation could undertake. These ideas are extended by discussing two theoretical approaches to conceptualising practitioner communities and their roles.
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Ding, A., Bruce, I. (2017). EAP Practitioners and Communities. In: The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59737-9_6
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