32.2705, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: EAP in an Interdisciplinary World: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy

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Subject: 32.2705, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: EAP in an Interdisciplinary World: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:34:41
From: Kevin Jiang [kevinjiang at jlu.edu.cn]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: EAP in an Interdisciplinary World: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy

 
As an important approach to language education, EAP is built on identifying
the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills
of target academic groups (Hyland, 2006; 2018), while recognizing the
subject-matter needs and expertise of learners. It also sees itself as
sensitive to contexts of discourse and disciplines, and seeks to develop
research-based pedagogies to assist study, research or publication in English
(Dong & Lu, 2020; Hyland, 2004; Jiang, 2019; Swales, 2004). However, it has
now become increasingly difficult to pin down an exact definition of
disciplines, especially in today’s scientific world which privileges an
interdisciplinary solution to problems (Trowler, Saunders & Bamber, 2012). 

Pharo et al. (2012) broadly defined interdisciplinarity as “…the integration
of disciplinary perspectives to produce insights that are more than the
summing of disciplinary knowledge” (p. 498). Previous studies also suggest
that interdisciplinarity involves more than the development of a different
form of research engagement, but represents a challenge to traditional ways of
discursive practice, learning styles and even instructional ideology (Choi &
Richards, 2017). Unfortunately, however, this change, or growing trend, has
been overlooked by much EAP literature, as evidenced by the burgeoning
research available on traditional (or pure) disciplines, such as history,
sociology, engineering, and economics (Dong & Buckingham, 2018, Jiang &
Hyland, 2017; Lancaster, 2016; Liu, 2012; Shaw, 2003). In the context of
ongoing trend towards interdisciplinarity in degree programmes (e.g.,
bioinformatics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, evolutionary
finance, global studies, and security studies), academics need the awareness
and skills to operate in interdisciplinary contexts in light of the increasing
popularity of such degree programmes among students. (Klein, & Newell, 1997;
Repko, & Szostak, 2020). 

Not only do the discursive features of this emerging academic
interdisciplinarity remain under-investigated, but the literacy practices and
instructional modes of these emerging interdisciplinary studies also await
systematic exploration. We seek to remedy this lack of attention to
interdisciplinarity in the field of EAP by addressing the implications that
academic interdisciplinarity has for research and pedagogy, so are editing a
volume on this pressing and engaging topic.

The volume is now under contract with Routledge. After external review by the
publisher, we reorganised the chapters after the previous calls for paper. Now
we welcome theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers in the following
areas. (The list is by no means exhaustive and different topics would be
welcomed.)

- Linguistic features and rhetorical resources used in interdisciplinary
research writing such as (but not limited to): formulaic language, authorial
stance, reader engagement, metadiscourse or rhetorical moves.
- Empirical investigations into academic literacy practices in
interdisciplinary teaching and research
- Classroom instruction 
- Curriculum design
- Genre-based instruction in interdisciplinarity EAP/ESP
- Publishing in interdisciplinary journals
- Interdisciplinary academic careers
- Supervising interdisciplinary research (MA and PhD students)
- Writing in the professions (or workplace writing)

Submission Requirements:

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words (not including the list of
works cited in the abstract), together with a short biographic statement for
each author (max. 150 words), to kevinjiang at jlu.edu.cn,
jdon104 at aucklanduni.ac.nz, or l.buckingham at auckland.ac.nz.

Timeline:

- Abstract and CV submission: 20 September 2021 
- Selection of abstracts & notification to successful contributors: 30
September 2020
- Full chapter submission: 30 December 2021
- Revised chapter submission: 20 March 2022
- Publication: around August 2022
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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