Crenças sobre escrita acadêmica de professores de inglês para fins específicos em serviço e sua influência no ensino

Marilia Mendes Ferreira

Authors

Marilia Mendes Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | São Paulo | SP | BR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5315-0377

Keywords:

beliefs about academic writing, in-service EAP teacher education, academic writing instruction

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss how experienced English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teachers’ beliefs about academic writing have affected their instruction. The data comprised two semi-structured interviews conducted with three experienced Brazilian EAP teachers working at a large university language center. Their course programs were also collected. The analysis of the six interviews revealed that the instructors´ structuralist view of language affected the product-based teaching of writing. In order to develop themselves as EAP instructors, they have to face some challenges: this traditional view of language which hinders the work with the specificity of academic discourse and the structuration of sustainable EAP professional development.

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