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English for Academic Purposes - Ideas
The EAP class pages have been remodeled as
the EAP1
Students' Page and the EAP2
Students' Page.
The following are
ideas for upper-level ESL classes to pursue in finding topics to
research, discuss and write about.
Not all of our topics have been
listed here. The page is also used to store old links from EAP2 writing
classes.
[ Interactivity ][ Environment ]
Wikipedia
This class used this exercise to write essays, drawing upon sources,
about whether students should be taught to use Wikipedia as a reference. This
presented the issue directly, gave students either option, and set out the
requirements for the essay; most of these ended up on the web, seen in the weblogs
of 082 students in the template of the class
weblog.
Interactivity
Our high-level classes have enjoyed discussing this issue, starting with
the following questions:
Are video games good for people? In
what ways? In what ways can we integrate interactivity into
language education?
LINKS:
Environment
Our EAP2 (highest level) classes have done environmental themes for many
years. We pick an area, find a problem or issue, and write about the
social and economic factors influencing that issue. For example, one
might research grizzly bears: their problems, the reasons they are
threatened, and what people in the west can do to protect and preserve
their habitats. Though some of the links from these pages may be
outdated, you may also find connections that will help you do the same
thing.
Old class-page links:
(hint:
033, for example, is literally the third term, or May-July, of
2003...this will give you an example of how dated these are; they are
presently being cleaned out)
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by
Thomas
Leverett, CESL, SIUC
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