| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Educational Linguistics, 1572-0292 ; volume 22 |
|
Educational linguistics ; volume 22.
|
| Contents |
Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Setting the℗ Stage: Context, Concepts, and℗ Theoretical Constructions; 1.1 Pivotal Events; 1.2 Why This Book?; 1.3 Key Concepts; 1.3.1 Neoliberal Universities; 1.3.2 English for℗ Academic Purposes; 1.3.3 Blended EAP Professionals; 1.4 Critical Grounded Theory; 1.4.1 Beginning Stage; 1.4.2 Intermediate Stage; 1.4.3 Final Stage; 1.5 Practicing Reflexivity; 1.5.1 Research Background and℗ Paradigmatic Position; 1.5.2 Composition Style, Transcription, and℗ Data Collection; 1.6 Structure of℗ This Book |
|
Chapter 2: EAP in℗ the℗ Third Space of℗ Neoliberal Universities2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Shift to℗ Vocationalism; 2.3 Sociopolitical and℗ Economic Scaffolding; 2.3.1 Globalization and℗ Higher Education; 2.3.2 Massification; 2.3.3 McDonaldization; 2.4 Institutional Manifestations and℗ Emergent Third Spaces; 2.4.1 Distinguishing Between Universities: An℗ HEI Typology; 2.4.2 Enter the℗ Third Space; 2.5 Reconstructing EAP into Student Processing Units℗ (SPUs); 2.5.1 From Collegiality to℗ Command & Control; 2.5.2 Mechanistic Models; 2.6 Chapter Summary; Chapter 3: The Emergence of℗ Blended EAP Professionals |
|
3.1 Introduction3.2 Blended Ambiguity; 3.3 Life as℗ a℗ BLEAP; 3.3.1 Becoming a℗ BLEAP; 3.3.2 Typical Tasks; 3.3.3 Types and℗ Trajectories; 3.3.4 Upwardly Mobile BLEAPs; 3.3.5 The Transactional BLEAP; 3.3.6 The Sinking BLEAP; 3.4 Chapter Summary; Chapter 4: Hunting and℗ Gathering; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Resource Prospecting; 4.2.1 Seeking Resource Enhancements; 4.2.2 Securing Dependable Resource Flows; 4.2.3 Cultivating Potential Resources; 4.2.4 TEAP Response to℗ Resource Prospecting; 4.3 Investment Servicing; 4.4 Milking the℗ Cash Cow; 4.4.1 Examples of℗ Overseas Program Milking; 4.4.2 Role of℗ BLEAPs |
|
4.4.3 Response of℗ TEAPs4.4.4 Covariances and℗ Conditions; 4.5 Resource Leeching; 4.5.1 Internal Resource Leeching; 4.5.2 External Resource Leeching; 4.6 Chapter Summary; Chapter 5: Weighing and℗ Measuring; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Contextual Factors in℗ the℗ Weighing & Measuring of℗ Higher Education; 5.2.1 External Factors; 5.2.2 Internal Factors; 5.3 Weighing & Measuring Tertiary EAP Programs; 5.3.1 Challenges to℗ the℗ Weighing & Measuring of℗ EAP Programs; 5.3.2 Strategies for℗ Weighing & Measuring EAP Programs; 5.4 Weighing & Measuring TEAPs; 5.4.1 Challenges to℗ the℗ Weighing & Measuring of℗ TEAPs |
|
5.4.2 Strategies for℗ Weighing & Measuring TEAPs5.5 Weighing & Measuring International Students; 5.5.1 Challenges to℗ Weighing & Measuring International Students; 5.5.2 Strategies for℗ Weighing & Measuring International Students; 5.6 Weighing & Measuring BLEAPs; 5.6.1 Challenges to℗ the℗ Weighing & Measuring of℗ BLEAPs; 5.6.2 BLEAP Strategies for℗ Weighing & Measuring; 5.7 Chapter Summary; Chapter 6: Molding and℗ Shaping from℗ on℗ High; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Seeing the℗ Big Picture; 6.2.1 BLEAPs and℗ the℗ Big Picture; 6.2.2 TEAPs in℗ Obscurity: Puzzling Out a℗ Different Picture; 6.3 Maintaining Control |
| Summary |
The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions, as they struggle to negotiate the challenges arising from a new focus on recruiting international students and hunting for other resources for their universities. Drawing from in-depth interviews with numerous research participants at over eleven higher educational institutions in the UK, Japan and the United States, this work focuses on those who have been precariously placed |
| Analysis |
onderwijs |
|
education |
|
taal |
|
language |
|
taalwetenschappen |
|
linguistics |
|
hoger onderwijs |
|
higher education |
|
talen |
|
languages |
|
Education (General) |
|
Onderwijs (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 24, 2014) |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)
|
|
Language: reference & general.
|
|
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
|
|
Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
|
|
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
|
|
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9783319104492 |
|
3319104497 |
|
3319104489 |
|
9783319104485 |
|
