HOLDING THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION
HOLDING THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: Internationalization of higher education and the impact of English in academic communication have resulted in opening a niche in language education. First, this involves a growing interest in studying academic discourse and rhetorical practices in order to support not only foreign and exchange students but mainly those academics who wish to publish in English and are apprehensive due to the widely acknowledged inequality in academic publishing in relation to discursive norms of languages different from English. Second, studying academic discourse involves studying language in action, looking at texts in relation to the social contexts in which they are used and the social relations they construct. Third, to meet the demand for formal language instruction targeting academics in non-English speaking countries, a handbook of academic communication in three languages was devised. Using the genre based approach it leads learners through academic genre moves and lexical bundles to strategies for academic communication.

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