Overview
- Offers strategies and approaches to support students in Higher Education
- Shows how to move beyond a sole paradigmatic focus on the text
- Draws together and reframes previous EAP research to assist practitioners
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This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with other non-text related languages. The authors call this a beyond-text subject based approach and argue that this can more effectively help students. The book first outlines and describes a ‘paradigm of linguistics’ that sees support as being only possible through linguistics written text approaches. It then describes how the authors have found through their own research studies that such approaches do not go far enough to best support students. They offer alternatives and justify them theoretically and empirically, and also suggest ways in which others can use similar approaches to best support students in HE. This book will be of interest to practitioners, students, teachers and researchers in the fields of Applied Linguistics, TESOL, English Medium Instruction (EMI), EAP and language education policy.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Nick Pilcher is a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is based in the Business School and has a range of interests. He has worked on pieces published in journals such as Qualitative Research, Teaching in Higher Education, the Journal of Cleaner Production, and Maritime Policy and Management.
Kendall Richards is a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. His research focuses on addressing academic support, retention, progression and widening access. He has presented globally and is published in journals including the International Journal of Qualitative Studies, Power and Education, and Teaching in Higher Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Subject-Focused Approach
Authors: Nick Pilcher, Kendall Richards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81724-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81723-7Published: 18 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81726-8Published: 19 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81724-4Published: 17 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 156
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Language Policy and Planning, Language Education, Intercultural Communication