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EAP in Nepal

Practitioner Perspectives on Multilingual Pedagogy

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English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Asia

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For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the language ecology in South Asia was multilingual (see Canagarajah & Liyanage, 2012; Pollock, 2006). The geopolitical situation of Nepal and its long sociocultural ties with India played a key role in the introduction of English education, and, even today, ecological factors contribute greatly to Nepalese English for Academic Purposes (EAP).

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  1. Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Madhav Kafle

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    Indika Liyanage

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    Tony Walker

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Kafle, M. (2014). EAP in Nepal. In: Liyanage, I., Walker, T. (eds) English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Asia. Critical New Literacies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-752-0_4

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