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The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes offers an accessible, authoritative, and comprehensive introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), covering the main theories, concepts, contexts, and applications of this rapidly-growing area of applied linguistics. Fully updated to reflect the latest developments and research, the new edition includes new contributions on: • bibliometric research approaches, • digital genres, • 3-minute theses, • corpus-based teaching, • online teaching, • Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning, • teacher professional development, teacher expertise, and practitioner research. Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter focuses on a different area of EAP and provides a state-of-the-art review of the key ideas and concepts. Illustrative case studies are included wherever possible, setting out in an accessible way the pitfalls, challenges, and opportunities of research or practice in that area. Suggestions for further reading are included with each chapter. The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes is an essential reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of EAP within English, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL.

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Ken Hyland is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has published over 320 articles and 30 books on writing and academic discourse, with over 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. According to the Stanford/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he has been the most influential scholar in language and linguistics for the past 5 years (2021–25). A collection of his work, The Essential Hyland, was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury. Paul Thompson is Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Corpus Linguistics journal and author of Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Susan Hunston, Routledge 2019).

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