An increasing number of universities are providing the current generation of students, the socalled ‘digital natives’ (Prensky, 2001) - with more flexible and innovative language learning environments through the use of free Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, Second Life and podcasting. However, still relatively little is known about wikis in the context of teaching English for Academic Purposes. My project aims to fill this research gap. I applied a case study strategy, where three groups of students attending a course Academic reading and writing for teacher candidates were examined. This paper demonstrates how the wiki software was employed in the course to encourage teacher candidates to proof-read and edit their own and others’ texts in order to be more accurate in academic writing. The present case study applied several research methods, including analysis of the texts written by students on the wiki and chat-room comments, an interview with the teacher of examined groups and a student questionnaire. The analysis of peer revisions was carefully conducted with a particular focus on: the variations in the way that students corrected each others’ texts, types of revised language issues, and the extent to which the teacher candidates were correcting accurately. My findings show that the students paid close attention to sentence structure (e.g. clauses, punctuation), fixing sentence problems (e.g. parallelism, choppy and stringy sentences), inflection and academic style. It is noteworthy that most of these languages issues were discussed in class. Considerably less attention was given by students to questions like paragraph structure and content. The accuracy of students’ revisions varied depending on the type of corrected language issue. The general impression of employing the wiki in this course was favourable. Many of the teacher candidates admitted that they would like to utilize the wiki tool in their future teaching courses.

The enrolment of international students at Canadian institutions of higher learning has tripled to 318,153 in 2018/2019 from 101,304 in 2008/2009 (Statistics Canada, 2020). Similarly, the number of international students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions has significantly risen (BC Council on Admissions & Transfer, 2019). A significant proportion of these international students for whom English is an additional language first encounter Canadian higher education through their enrolment in English-for-academic-purposes (EAP) programs, which prepare students for English-language coursework and offer a path for enrolment at Canadian institutions without an institution’s required documentation of English language proficiency. For international English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) students who initially enrol in EAP programs in order to later pursue higher studies in Canada, reading a variety of academic texts can be challenging, since reading comprehension “involves the ability to integrate various sources of information in order to construct” meaning (Li & D’Angelo, 2016, p. 159). To facilitate reading comprehension, second language (L2) researchers have identified a variety of reading strategies, and extensive research has been conducted to examine the efficacy of reading strategy instruction. However, the research on the effect of reading strategy instruction remains inconclusive due to the interplay of various contextual and individual variables (e.g., Cohen, 2011; Plonsky, 2011). This study reports a mixed methods-action research project involving 52 intermediate-level EAP students conducted to investigate the efficacy of L2 reading strategy instruction at a post-secondary institution in Canada. Implemented through five phases: diagnosing, reconnoitering, planning, acting, and evaluation (Ivankova, 2015), the study used Mokhtari and Sheorey’s (2002) Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) to capture the participants’ reading strategy use and a standardized reading comprehension test to measure the participants’ reading comprehension abilities. Further, participants’ weekly post-task verbal reflections and post-intervention interviews provided qualitative data about learners’ use of reading strategies over time. Through both qualitative (i.e., content analysis) and quantitative data analyses (i.e., descriptive statistics, paired-sample t-test, Pearson’s correlation, and MANOVA tests), the results showed higher awareness and use of reading strategies and reading performance among the participants after the intervention. In strategy use and reading comprehension, the experimental groups that received reading strategy instruction outperformed the comparison group that simply received regular instruction on reading with no instruction on strategy use. Statistically significant correlations were found between participants’ overall strategy use and reading performance. The analysis of the qualitative data revealed that the participants used a wide variety of global, problem-solving, and support reading strategies depending on reading academic texts in English. / Graduate

Students entering academic programmes are frequently overwhelmed by the demand for extensive reading and comprehension of information derived from multiple and contrasting sources. This entails both careful and expeditious reading. The latter has been generally neglected in research and has not been the focus of many tests. Both types of reading were investigated in this study through a validation process of the summative English reading test for academic purposes taken at the end of the Foundation Programme in Oman. In particular, context validity was established through focusing on the interaction between the linguistic demands and task setting parameters and also the cognitive processes through which the students engaged with the test tasks. To establish the context validity of the test, this study adopted Khalifa and Weir’s (2009) model which not only embraced the complex and multi-componential nature of reading but also provided a workable validation framework. A multi-strategy approach was adopted. A natural experiment utilising Verbal Protocol Analysis captured the cognitive processes through which students engaged in reading. Automated analysis software and opinions of expert judges were used to compare test passages with text extracts drawn from first year academic courses. Correlation tests and factor analysis revealed these cognitive processes and established the robustness of the Khalifa and Weir (2009) model, which was thus validated in a second language context. Passages in the foundation tests were found to be generally representative of academic texts although certain features such as abstractness were under-represented. / Government of the Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Manpower

This classroom ethnography documents the developing critical literacy pedagogy of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructor over the course of several terms. My research, which involved extensive collaboration with the EAP instructor, explores how specific classroom practices and discourses are enacted and mediated through dialogic intertextualities, material objects, and social actions that frame representations about language, literacy, and what Lefebvre (1988) called “le quotidien” – the everyday, and how these affect the students’ meaning-making potential in specific ways. It also traces the contours (and detours) of the instructor’s classroom practices after the researcher’s mediation in the form of collaborative inquiries on functional grammar and critical literacy, and the effects of these classroom practices on making meaning in her EAP classes. I consider several issues from an integrated theory and practice perspective. Because of an urgent need to understand the students’ practices and epistemologies as they engage in ever newer forms of multimodal text productions, I contend that EAP classroom practices must be reshaped to facilitate more (inter)active engagements of the multimodal texts that saturate students’ lives, both inside the class and outside. Related to this, I highlight in my classroom data what actually counts as the ‘critical’ or the ‘uncritical’ in this EAP classroom and argue why these distinctions matter. Lastly, I suggest ways in which the role of a critical multiliteracies education in EAP can meet the pragmatic needs of both students and teachers. My research contributes to a much-needed dialogue between critically oriented researchers and practitioners in the field of TESOL/Applied Linguistics by bridging the gap between theory and practice. The lessons learned from this collaborative classroom praxis point to concrete ways to help EAP teachers and students utilize their meaning-making potential. This involves equipping them with an expanded social semiotic tool-kit that can enable them to not only meet their immediate academic needs, but also help create a more active and possibly transformative role in the social constructions of discourse, language, and society. This doctoral dissertation has implications for those who are involved in EAP teaching and research, curriculum planning, teacher training, and student needs assessment.

This classroom ethnography documents the developing critical literacy pedagogy of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructor over the course of several terms. My research, which involved extensive collaboration with the EAP instructor, explores how specific classroom practices and discourses are enacted and mediated through dialogic intertextualities, material objects, and social actions that frame representations about language, literacy, and what Lefebvre (1988) called “le quotidien” – the everyday, and how these affect the students’ meaning-making potential in specific ways. It also traces the contours (and detours) of the instructor’s classroom practices after the researcher’s mediation in the form of collaborative inquiries on functional grammar and critical literacy, and the effects of these classroom practices on making meaning in her EAP classes. I consider several issues from an integrated theory and practice perspective. Because of an urgent need to understand the students’ practices and epistemologies as they engage in ever newer forms of multimodal text productions, I contend that EAP classroom practices must be reshaped to facilitate more (inter)active engagements of the multimodal texts that saturate students’ lives, both inside the class and outside. Related to this, I highlight in my classroom data what actually counts as the ‘critical’ or the ‘uncritical’ in this EAP classroom and argue why these distinctions matter. Lastly, I suggest ways in which the role of a critical multiliteracies education in EAP can meet the pragmatic needs of both students and teachers. My research contributes to a much-needed dialogue between critically oriented researchers and practitioners in the field of TESOL/Applied Linguistics by bridging the gap between theory and practice. The lessons learned from this collaborative classroom praxis point to concrete ways to help EAP teachers and students utilize their meaning-making potential. This involves equipping them with an expanded social semiotic tool-kit that can enable them to not only meet their immediate academic needs, but also help create a more active and possibly transformative role in the social constructions of discourse, language, and society. This doctoral dissertation has implications for those who are involved in EAP teaching and research, curriculum planning, teacher training, and student needs assessment.

O Programa Idiomas sem Fronteiras (IsF) promove ações para o ensino e a aprendizagem de idiomas com intuito de fortalecer a internacionalização das universidades e a formação de professores de línguas, pois são os alunos de graduação em Letras Inglês que ministram as aulas. Os Núcleos de Línguas (NucLi) organizam encontros pedagógicos-administrativos semanais, ou seja, momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, para discutir questões burocráticas sobre o Programa, que, acima de tudo, permitam aos professores aprender, indagar e refletir sobre a própria formação. Situada nesse contexto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever e analisar os momentos de formação docente para o ensino de Inglês para Fins Acadêmicos (IFA) vivenciados pelos professores-bolsistas no contexto de um NucLi do IsF em uma universidade pública brasileira. A fundamentação teórica deste trabalho está relacionada à formação docente orgânica, aquela que acontece dentro da profissão, de forma reflexiva e transformadora, conjugando conhecimentos teóricos e práticos ao contexto em que o professor está inserido (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), e a IFA, cujo enfoque está no ensino e na aprendizagem da língua inglesa com vistas à participação e circulação de conhecimentos em contextos universitários (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). A questão norteadora do trabalho foi entender se os momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, de formação do NucLi – IsF preparam os professores-bolsistas para ensinar IFA. A pesquisa foi realizada ao longo de oito meses de trabalho de campo, envolvendo geração de dados etnográficos em um NucLi por meio de observação participante, gravações em áudio, registros fotográficos, entrevistas semiestruturadas e coleta de documentos. Por meio da análise dos dados, concluímos que os momentos de formação oportunizaram aos professores-bolsistas aprender e praticar IFA e refletir sobre o seu ensino através de três iniciativas do NucLi: aulas de preparação para o TOEFL ITP, em que os participantes mobilizaram seus conhecimentos linguísticos para realizar o teste e ampliaram o seu repertório de dinâmicas de sala de aula; reuniões pedagógico-administrativas, nas quais compartilharam materiais e indagaram sobre a formação desenvolvida no seu NucLi, propondo novas ações a serem implementadas; e aulas de leitura e escrita acadêmica, ministradas por uma das professoras-bolsistas aos seus colegas, em que puderam discutir habilidades e gêneros que circulam na esfera acadêmica, analisá-los e refletir sobre o uso que fariam em sala de aula, fornecendo subsídios a esses professores-bolsistas para lidar com o ensino de IFA. Ademais, os participantes expressam haver diferença entre ensinar IFA e inglês geral no planejamento e na condução das aulas, assim como na própria formação, pois também precisam ter conhecimento das práticas acadêmicas além do conhecimento linguístico para ministrar esse tipo de curso. Com base neste estudo, busca-se contribuir para um entendimento mais profundo acerca da formação de professores de IFA e da necessidade de integrar práticas de ensino com práticas acadêmicas. / The Languages without Borders (LwB) Program promotes actions for the teaching and learning of languages in order to strengthen the internationalization of universities and the development of language teachers, since the very undergraduate students are responsible for teaching the classes. The Language Centers (LC) organize weekly pedagogical-administrative meetings, i.e., formal, or institutionalized, moments to discuss bureaucratic issues about the Program, and, above all, to promote learning, questioning and reflection on their own teacher education itself. In this context, this study aims to describe and analyze the teacher education program for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) experienced by the student teachers in the context of a LC of the LwB Program in a Brazilian public university. The theoretical framework is related to an organic teacher education process, one that occurs within the profession, in a reflective and transforming manner, combining theoretical and practical knowledge to the context in which the teacher is inserted (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), and to EAP, the focus of which is on the English language teaching and learning aiming at the participation and circulation of knowledge in university contexts (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). The guiding question was to understand if the formal, or institutionalized, teacher education program at the LC prepares the student teachers to teach EAP. The research was conducted during eight months of fieldwork and involved ethnographic data generation in a LC through participant observation, audio recordings, photographic records, semi-structured interviews, and document collection. The teacher education program gave teachers the opportunity to learn and practice EAP and to reflect on their teaching through three initiatives of the LC: TOEFL ITP preparation classes, in which participants mobilized their language skills to carry out the test and broaden their repertoire of classroom dynamics; pedagogical-administrative meetings, where they shared classroom materials and inquired about the teacher education developed in their LC, proposing new actions to be implemented; and academic reading and writing classes taught by one of student teachers to their colleagues, in which they could discuss skills and genres that circulate in the academic sphere, analyze them and reflect on their use in the classroom, providing subsidies to these student teachers to deal with the teaching of EAP in that context. In addition, participants’ expressed that there are differences between teaching EAP and general English regarding lesson planning and their own classroom practices, as well as their teacher development itself, because they also need to have knowledge of academic practices besides the linguistic knowledge to teach this type of course. Based on this study, we hope to contribute to a deeper understanding of EAP teacher education and to the need to integrate teaching practices with academic practices.

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Para tanto, a Linguística de Corpus serviu com aparato teórico-metodológico, e as atividades preparadas foram aplicadas em um minicurso de 12 horas ministrado em uma instituição de ensino superior tecnológico, no noroeste do estado de São Paulo. Os alunos participantes estavam no último ano de suas graduações e ao terminarem o curso eles têm a oportunidade de se submeterem a aplicação do exame de proficiência internacional TOEFL. A necessidade desta pesquisa se deu após o resultado do mapeamento de proficiência em língua inglesa dos alunos brasileiros revelarem um nível insuficiente para o acompanhamento das atividades acadêmicas em universidades do exterior (ABREU LIMA, MORAES FILHO, 2016). Como metodologia de pesquisa, utilizamos o programa AntConc® como ferramenta para a realização das análises e descrições lexicais do corpus de estudo para a pesquisa, que foi compilado a partir das transcrições de 71 palestras retiradas do site TED (www.ted.com) e de 56 transcrições das animações do site TED-ED (https://ed.ted.com/). A partir dos dados obtidos por meio das análises do corpus de estudo, foram propostas, e posteriormente aplicadas, atividades com o foco na compreensão oral em língua inglesa. Como fundamentação teórica, tomamos como base os conceitos de Inglês para Fins Acadêmicos (FLOWERDEW, 2001; CHARLES, 2013; HYLAND, 2006), Linguística de Corpus (CHARLES, 2012; MCENERY, XIAO, 2011; BERBER SARDINHA, 2010; 2004), e as concepções sobre a Compreensão Oral (ROST, 2011; FLOWERDEW, MILLER, 2005; GOH 2003, 2012; MCCARTHY, 1998). Os resultados obtidos nesta pesquisa contribuem para o aprimoramento da compreensão oral dos alunos sobre a língua inglesa. Esperamos ainda que este estudo ressalte a importância da Linguística de Corpus para o ensino e aprendizagem de línguas, assim como a relevância da elaboração de materiais didáticos baseados em corpus. / This master's research aimed at the designing of corpus-based activities in English, focusing on the development of the oral comprehension for students at levels A2 and B1. To that end, Corpus linguistics was used as a theoretical-methodological apparatus, and the activities were applied in a mini-course of 12 hours taught at a higher education institution in the northwest of the state of São Paulo. The participating students were in the last year of their undergraduate studies and upon finishing the course they have the opportunity to apply for the international proficiency exam TOEFL. The need for this research came after the mapping of Brazilian students’ level of English revealed an insufficient proficiency to follow academic activities in universities abroad (ABREU LIMA, MORAES FILHO, 2016). As a research methodology, we used the Antconc® program as a tool to perform lexical analyzes and descriptions. The corpus of study for this research was compiled from the transcripts of 71 lectures taken from the TED website (www.ted.com) and 56 transcripts of the TED-ED website animations (https://ed.ted.com/). From the data obtained through the analysis of the corpus of study, activities focused on listening comprehension in English were proposed and then applied to students. As a theoretical basis, we followed the concepts of English for Academic Purposes (FLOWERDEW, 2001, CHARLES, 2013, HYLAND, 2006), Corpus Linguistics (CHARLES, 2012, MCENERY, XIAO, 2011, BERBER SARDINHA, 2010); and conceptions about Oral Comprehension (ROST, 2011; FLOWERDEW, MILLER, 2005; GOH 2003, 2012; MCCARTHY, 1998). The results obtained in this research are intended to improve the lexical knowledge of the students in English. We also hope that this study may highlight the importance of Corpus Linguistics for language teaching and learning, as well as the relevance of corpus-based materials.

O Programa Idiomas sem Fronteiras (IsF) promove ações para o ensino e a aprendizagem de idiomas com intuito de fortalecer a internacionalização das universidades e a formação de professores de línguas, pois são os alunos de graduação em Letras Inglês que ministram as aulas. Os Núcleos de Línguas (NucLi) organizam encontros pedagógicos-administrativos semanais, ou seja, momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, para discutir questões burocráticas sobre o Programa, que, acima de tudo, permitam aos professores aprender, indagar e refletir sobre a própria formação. Situada nesse contexto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever e analisar os momentos de formação docente para o ensino de Inglês para Fins Acadêmicos (IFA) vivenciados pelos professores-bolsistas no contexto de um NucLi do IsF em uma universidade pública brasileira. A fundamentação teórica deste trabalho está relacionada à formação docente orgânica, aquela que acontece dentro da profissão, de forma reflexiva e transformadora, conjugando conhecimentos teóricos e práticos ao contexto em que o professor está inserido (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), e a IFA, cujo enfoque está no ensino e na aprendizagem da língua inglesa com vistas à participação e circulação de conhecimentos em contextos universitários (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). A questão norteadora do trabalho foi entender se os momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, de formação do NucLi – IsF preparam os professores-bolsistas para ensinar IFA. A pesquisa foi realizada ao longo de oito meses de trabalho de campo, envolvendo geração de dados etnográficos em um NucLi por meio de observação participante, gravações em áudio, registros fotográficos, entrevistas semiestruturadas e coleta de documentos. Por meio da análise dos dados, concluímos que os momentos de formação oportunizaram aos professores-bolsistas aprender e praticar IFA e refletir sobre o seu ensino através de três iniciativas do NucLi: aulas de preparação para o TOEFL ITP, em que os participantes mobilizaram seus conhecimentos linguísticos para realizar o teste e ampliaram o seu repertório de dinâmicas de sala de aula; reuniões pedagógico-administrativas, nas quais compartilharam materiais e indagaram sobre a formação desenvolvida no seu NucLi, propondo novas ações a serem implementadas; e aulas de leitura e escrita acadêmica, ministradas por uma das professoras-bolsistas aos seus colegas, em que puderam discutir habilidades e gêneros que circulam na esfera acadêmica, analisá-los e refletir sobre o uso que fariam em sala de aula, fornecendo subsídios a esses professores-bolsistas para lidar com o ensino de IFA. Ademais, os participantes expressam haver diferença entre ensinar IFA e inglês geral no planejamento e na condução das aulas, assim como na própria formação, pois também precisam ter conhecimento das práticas acadêmicas além do conhecimento linguístico para ministrar esse tipo de curso. Com base neste estudo, busca-se contribuir para um entendimento mais profundo acerca da formação de professores de IFA e da necessidade de integrar práticas de ensino com práticas acadêmicas. / The Languages without Borders (LwB) Program promotes actions for the teaching and learning of languages in order to strengthen the internationalization of universities and the development of language teachers, since the very undergraduate students are responsible for teaching the classes. The Language Centers (LC) organize weekly pedagogical-administrative meetings, i.e., formal, or institutionalized, moments to discuss bureaucratic issues about the Program, and, above all, to promote learning, questioning and reflection on their own teacher education itself. In this context, this study aims to describe and analyze the teacher education program for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) experienced by the student teachers in the context of a LC of the LwB Program in a Brazilian public university. The theoretical framework is related to an organic teacher education process, one that occurs within the profession, in a reflective and transforming manner, combining theoretical and practical knowledge to the context in which the teacher is inserted (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), and to EAP, the focus of which is on the English language teaching and learning aiming at the participation and circulation of knowledge in university contexts (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). The guiding question was to understand if the formal, or institutionalized, teacher education program at the LC prepares the student teachers to teach EAP. The research was conducted during eight months of fieldwork and involved ethnographic data generation in a LC through participant observation, audio recordings, photographic records, semi-structured interviews, and document collection. The teacher education program gave teachers the opportunity to learn and practice EAP and to reflect on their teaching through three initiatives of the LC: TOEFL ITP preparation classes, in which participants mobilized their language skills to carry out the test and broaden their repertoire of classroom dynamics; pedagogical-administrative meetings, where they shared classroom materials and inquired about the teacher education developed in their LC, proposing new actions to be implemented; and academic reading and writing classes taught by one of student teachers to their colleagues, in which they could discuss skills and genres that circulate in the academic sphere, analyze them and reflect on their use in the classroom, providing subsidies to these student teachers to deal with the teaching of EAP in that context. In addition, participants’ expressed that there are differences between teaching EAP and general English regarding lesson planning and their own classroom practices, as well as their teacher development itself, because they also need to have knowledge of academic practices besides the linguistic knowledge to teach this type of course. Based on this study, we hope to contribute to a deeper understanding of EAP teacher education and to the need to integrate teaching practices with academic practices.

O Programa Idiomas sem Fronteiras (IsF) promove ações para o ensino e a aprendizagem de idiomas com intuito de fortalecer a internacionalização das universidades e a formação de professores de línguas, pois são os alunos de graduação em Letras Inglês que ministram as aulas. Os Núcleos de Línguas (NucLi) organizam encontros pedagógicos-administrativos semanais, ou seja, momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, para discutir questões burocráticas sobre o Programa, que, acima de tudo, permitam aos professores aprender, indagar e refletir sobre a própria formação. Situada nesse contexto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever e analisar os momentos de formação docente para o ensino de Inglês para Fins Acadêmicos (IFA) vivenciados pelos professores-bolsistas no contexto de um NucLi do IsF em uma universidade pública brasileira. A fundamentação teórica deste trabalho está relacionada à formação docente orgânica, aquela que acontece dentro da profissão, de forma reflexiva e transformadora, conjugando conhecimentos teóricos e práticos ao contexto em que o professor está inserido (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), e a IFA, cujo enfoque está no ensino e na aprendizagem da língua inglesa com vistas à participação e circulação de conhecimentos em contextos universitários (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). A questão norteadora do trabalho foi entender se os momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, de formação do NucLi – IsF preparam os professores-bolsistas para ensinar IFA. A pesquisa foi realizada ao longo de oito meses de trabalho de campo, envolvendo geração de dados etnográficos em um NucLi por meio de observação participante, gravações em áudio, registros fotográficos, entrevistas semiestruturadas e coleta de documentos. Por meio da análise dos dados, concluímos que os momentos de formação oportunizaram aos professores-bolsistas aprender e praticar IFA e refletir sobre o seu ensino através de três iniciativas do NucLi: aulas de preparação para o TOEFL ITP, em que os participantes mobilizaram seus conhecimentos linguísticos para realizar o teste e ampliaram o seu repertório de dinâmicas de sala de aula; reuniões pedagógico-administrativas, nas quais compartilharam materiais e indagaram sobre a formação desenvolvida no seu NucLi, propondo novas ações a serem implementadas; e aulas de leitura e escrita acadêmica, ministradas por uma das professoras-bolsistas aos seus colegas, em que puderam discutir habilidades e gêneros que circulam na esfera acadêmica, analisá-los e refletir sobre o uso que fariam em sala de aula, fornecendo subsídios a esses professores-bolsistas para lidar com o ensino de IFA. Ademais, os participantes expressam haver diferença entre ensinar IFA e inglês geral no planejamento e na condução das aulas, assim como na própria formação, pois também precisam ter conhecimento das práticas acadêmicas além do conhecimento linguístico para ministrar esse tipo de curso. Com base neste estudo, busca-se contribuir para um entendimento mais profundo acerca da formação de professores de IFA e da necessidade de integrar práticas de ensino com práticas acadêmicas. / The Languages without Borders (LwB) Program promotes actions for the teaching and learning of languages in order to strengthen the internationalization of universities and the development of language teachers, since the very undergraduate students are responsible for teaching the classes. The Language Centers (LC) organize weekly pedagogical-administrative meetings, i.e., formal, or institutionalized, moments to discuss bureaucratic issues about the Program, and, above all, to promote learning, questioning and reflection on their own teacher education itself. In this context, this study aims to describe and analyze the teacher education program for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) experienced by the student teachers in the context of a LC of the LwB Program in a Brazilian public university. The theoretical framework is related to an organic teacher education process, one that occurs within the profession, in a reflective and transforming manner, combining theoretical and practical knowledge to the context in which the teacher is inserted (SCHÖN, 1995; PÉREZ GÓMEZ, 1995; VILLEGAS-REIMERS, 2003; NÓVOA, 2007; COSTA, 2013), and to EAP, the focus of which is on the English language teaching and learning aiming at the participation and circulation of knowledge in university contexts (FLOWERDEW; PEACOCK, 2001; HYLAND; HAMP-LYONS, 2002; BRUCE, 2011). The guiding question was to understand if the formal, or institutionalized, teacher education program at the LC prepares the student teachers to teach EAP. The research was conducted during eight months of fieldwork and involved ethnographic data generation in a LC through participant observation, audio recordings, photographic records, semi-structured interviews, and document collection. The teacher education program gave teachers the opportunity to learn and practice EAP and to reflect on their teaching through three initiatives of the LC: TOEFL ITP preparation classes, in which participants mobilized their language skills to carry out the test and broaden their repertoire of classroom dynamics; pedagogical-administrative meetings, where they shared classroom materials and inquired about the teacher education developed in their LC, proposing new actions to be implemented; and academic reading and writing classes taught by one of student teachers to their colleagues, in which they could discuss skills and genres that circulate in the academic sphere, analyze them and reflect on their use in the classroom, providing subsidies to these student teachers to deal with the teaching of EAP in that context. In addition, participants’ expressed that there are differences between teaching EAP and general English regarding lesson planning and their own classroom practices, as well as their teacher development itself, because they also need to have knowledge of academic practices besides the linguistic knowledge to teach this type of course. Based on this study, we hope to contribute to a deeper understanding of EAP teacher education and to the need to integrate teaching practices with academic practices.

This applied dissertation provides insight into the various factors affecting persistence and transition to college-level courses for students learning English for academic purposes (EAP). An influx of immigrants who want to continue their postsecondary studies has affected the programs serving EAP students in United States. Scholars have identified some factors that influence persistence and success of immigrant students at postsecondary institutions such as cultural and educational norms, curriculum and career support, and academic and social interactions. A qualitative approach with a multiple case study analysis allowed in-depth exploration of the factors affecting college course enrollment of EAP students. The researcher interviewed 10 participants who represented the student population enrolled in the EAP program. From these individual case analyses, the researcher identified strategies that could enhance retention and transition to college courses of EAP students. The researcher used NVivo qualitative data analysis software to gain a deeper understanding within textual categories and structural themes as well as to ensure thoroughness and reliability. The results of this study suggest that enhancement in both academic and social integration and curriculum and career support can assist EAP students in their transition to college courses.