9 Further exploration

If you’d like to explore EAP as a profession further, you could start with the British Council site: Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

Another useful source of information is the following website for EAP teachers: The global forum for EAP professionals.

You can explore corpus linguistics through the following free course: Corpus Linguistics Analysis.

The NCRM (National Council for Research Methods) has useful material, for example, the following resource: Maria Leedham (2025) Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, National Centre for Research Methods online learning resource.

If you’re interested in finding out more about Maggie Charles’s use of corpora in EAP, read her paper: Maggie Charles (2014) ‘Getting the corpus habit: EAP students’ long-term use of personal corpora’, English for Specific Purposes, vol. 35, pp. 35–40. This article is short and very readable. It includes interesting quotes on the pros and cons of students using their own corpora from a cohort of students one year on from their course with Maggie Charles.