Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Article	Citations
Book review	58
English reading expectations in Swedish higher education	57
De-mystifying the nimbus of research: re-igniting practitioners' interest in exploring EAP	46
Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom	45
The impact of input format on written performance in a listening-into-writing assessment	43
Evolving themes and trends in business English research: A bibliometric analysis (1990-2024)	42
BALEAP Vision and Values in Practice	41
Epistemic verb complementation in research articles: A corpus-based approach to the verb suggest in two disciplines	38
Students’ self-determination in using machine translation and generative AI tools for English for academic purposes	36
Generative AI in dissertation writing: L2 doctoral students’ self-reported use, AI-giarism, and perceived training needs	33
Reimagining undergraduate EAP curricula: Exploring an AI-integrated, asset-oriented, genre-based, multimodal course redesign	32
Editorial Board	30
“In the present study”: An exploration of prepositional phrase-frames in Chinese EFL learners’ theses and dissertations of applied linguistics	30
Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics	30
An investigation into the missions and practices of glocal writing centers in the Chinese context: ERPP and EAP-EGP hybrid approaches	28
Using AI-driven interventions in EAP classes: a mixed-method study on motivation and learning outcomes	27
Economies of academic writing for multilingual international students	26
The influences of international master's students' feedback seeking behaviour on their feedback literacy and feedback contexts: An ecological perspective	25
The need for English language development in anglophone higher education settings: A case study from Australia	25
Storytelling in L2 English-medium engineering lectures: A typology	24
What does it mean to construct an argument in academic writing? A synthesis of English for general academic purposes and English for specific academic purposes perspectives	23
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship	23
Integrative genre-based pedagogy: Enhancing social responsiveness in English medium of instruction and STEM education	23
The crushing weight of fake papers	22
A Chinese EFL student's strategies in graduation thesis writing: An Activity Theory perspective	21

Smart tools, smarter minds? Learner-AI interaction and AI assistance on critical thinking in EAP contexts	21
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG	21
Developing advanced citation skills: A mixed-methods approach to corpus technology training for novice researchers	21
Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher	20
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”: Understanding Chinese returnee scholars’ English collaborative writing experiences in academic publishing	20
Human-AI collaborative reading in academic contexts: An exploratory case study	19
Promoting research: Academic hypes embedded in the rhetorical move structure of sociology research article abstracts	19
A cross-sectional analysis of negation used in thesis writing by L1 and L2 PhD students	19
Editorial Board	18
Book review	18
Using legitimation code theory to investigate English medium lecturers’ knowledge-building practices	18
Approaching digital genre composing through reflective pedagogical praxis	18
‘The goal of this study is to assess …’: a local grammar of purpose statements in Applied Linguistics research article abstracts	15
Metadiscourse in postgraduate thesis supervisions at UK and Taiwanese universities	15
Impacts of AI-enhanced task-based learning on EFL postgraduates’ higher order thinking skills and English academic writing self-efficacy	15
A systematic analysis of first-person identity roles in agricultural sciences	14
Tackling illegitimate intertextuality through socialization - An action research project	13
Preparing learners for digitally mediated academic communication: Digital multimodal practice in students’ knowledge dissemination videos	13
Introduction to the special issue: Action research in english language and communication contexts in higher education	13
Self-regulation and student engagement with feedback: The case of Chinese EFL student writers	13
BALEAP News	12
Move-stance connection in Chinese and English research article conclusion sections: A cross-linguistic study	12
Writers' communicative resources for comparing present and past research findings: A pedagogically motivated inquiry into scientists' rhetorical practices	12
Post-admission standalone undergraduate credit-bearing ESL courses: What difference do they make?	12
Facilitating student engagement and achievement with interactive H5P videos: A case study on a Y2 EAP module	12
Personal learning environment-supported group academic writing: Chinese postgraduates' experiences and evaluation	12
Beyond “more research is needed”: Paradigmatic variations in the content and rhetorical force of recommendations in research articles	12
Towards an understanding of EMI teacher expertise in higher education: An intrinsic case study	11
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG	11
Editorial Board	11
Editor's Note	11
Book Review	11
BALEAP news – Looking back, looking forward …	11
Book review	11
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs – Law	11
Integrating a diachronic perspective into the teaching of academic discourse acts: A case study of graphic data commentary	10
A multi-faceted evaluation of the impact on students of an Australian university-wide academic language development program	10
Nursing and midwifery students’ ethical views on the acceptability of using AI machine translation software to write university assignments: A deficit-oriented or translanguaging perspective?	10
Transvocal stance in academic translation: A rhetorical analysis of grammatical stance in translated applied linguistics English research article abstracts	10
Authorial voice in source-based and opinion-based argumentative writing: Patterns of voice across task types and proficiency levels	10
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines	10
Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT for rhetorical move-step analysis: The impact of prompt refinement, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning	10
Seeking research funding in a peripheral context: A learner corpus genre study of grant proposal summaries	10
Pre-admission EAP course completion as evidence of English language proficiency for university admission: A longitudinal evaluation study	10
Saying verbs in applied linguistics research articles: At the interface of reportage and evaluation	10
Multilevel engagement in academic L2 reading: Developing and validating a scale	9
Book review	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
‘X can be classified into … ’: A local grammar of classification in academic discourse and its implications for EAP pedagogy	9

Notetaking as validity evidence: A mixed-methods investigation of question preview in EAP listening assessment	9
Effectiveness of student academic presentations: What do we learn from presentation guidebooks?	9
Supporting genre-based writing instruction in EAP with a blended collaborative learning environment: A case study of a graduate-level EFL academic writing course	9
Discussing limitations in disciplinary writing: Self-reported limitations and self-justifications	9
Writing book reviews: Perceptions and experiences of Chinese novice scholars	9
Understanding the collaborative assessment identity of English for academic purposes practitioners in higher education	9
Recurrent patterns, disciplinary variations: How academics construct professional identities through evaluative language	9
Disciplinary variation of metadiscourse: A comparison of human-written and ChatGPT-generated English research article abstracts	8
Enhancing EAP students’ repertoires of evaluative language expressions through an innovative teaching sequence with redesigned course materials	8
Citation practices in applied linguistics: A comparative study of Korean master's theses and research articles	8
Bridging EAP and EMI: Professional development for EAP teachers in Chinese higher education	8
Exploration of value arguments in applied linguistics research articles	8
SFL genre-based writing research in the university EAP classroom: A systematic review from 1995 to 2024	8
Negotiating the path to publication: Functional units and lexical bundles in author responses to peer review	8
Assessing the impact of pre-lecture reading compliance on lecture comprehension in English-medium instruction courses	8
Reimagining writing instruction with GenAI: Insights into postgraduate EAP students' GenAI prompt engineering practices in Hong Kong	8
Diachronic changes in the syntactic complexity of emerging Chinese international publication writers’ research article introductions: A rhetorical strategic perspective	8
Learner-centered EAP practices: Managing agenda in tutorial interaction	7
EAP practitioners' assessment behavior: Bringing the hidden-away to light	7
Revamping an English for specific academic purposes course for problem-based learning: Reflections from course developers	7
Investigating verbal-visual mode interaction in medical audio-slide presentations	7
Inclusive pedagogies and practices of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in higher education (HE): An exploratory survey-based study	7
Editorial Board	7
Utilization of appraisal resources for acknowledging limitations within doctoral theses across disciplines	7
Book review	7
Corrigendum to “The expression of obligation in student academic writing” [Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2020), (44), 100840]	7
Enhancing multimodal speaking practice with real-time AI avatars: A pedagogical trial in a university English course	7
Materials for an oral presentations class on gesture: Navigating a visual with your audience	7
The unveiling diachronic changes in interactive metadiscourse use in the academic writing of applied linguistics over 45 years	7
A specialized vocabulary list from an original corpus of digital science resources for middle school learners	7
Microaggressions to microaffirmations: A trioethnography of plurilingual EAP instructors	7
Editorial Board	7
SFL and academic apprenticeship	7
Editorial Board	7
The dynamics of building academic writing knowledge in interaction	7
Using the knowledge and expertise of English language specialists to enhance L1 English speaking lecturers’ lectures: A professional development project	7
“We define X as …”: A local grammar of definition in linguistics research articles and its pedagogical value	7
What can be done to make peer review a more sustainable practice?	7
Investigating student difficulties in English-medium secondary classes: A functional linguist and a science educator in collaboration	6
Promotion of medical research: Stance in AI-generated and scholar-written highlights	6
Changing EAP assessment practices in the age of generative artificial intelligence: The case of Scottish higher education institutions	6
RETRACTED: Guided and unguided GenAI tasks for learning academic spoken collocations	6
Changing patterns of the grammatical stance devices in medical research articles (1970–2020)	6
Systemic functional semiotics for English for Academic Purposes: The practice of theory	6
A mixed-methods study of strategy use in academic vocabulary learning among first-year undergraduates in Hong Kong	6
Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context	6
“I notice I'm getting more involved, interested, and excited about my future topic.” Action research as a transition from research steps to navigating graduate students' scholarly dispositions	6
Implementing academic reading circles in higher education: Exploring perceptions, motivation and outcomes	6
GPT as book reviewer: A move and syntactic complexity analysis of GPT-generated versus scholar-written academic book reviews	6
Examining AI adoption in English academic writing: Do L2 writing selves, enjoyment, and education level matter?	6
Diachronic change of noun phrase complexity in the IMRD sections of medical research articles (1970–2020)	5
‘Excited to see our latest work published’: Recontextualizing research results in biomedical tweetorials	5
Exploring PhD students’ utilization of generative AI in academic writing for publication purposes: Insights for EAP	5
Informal professional learning through collaborative action research: Fostering backstage dialogue among new EAP teachers	5
BALEAP News for JEAP May 2025Introducing Hannah Jones, new Chair of BALEAP	5
Graphic data commentary patterns of mathematical papers in STEM writing education context: A case study of mathematical contest in modeling	5
Book review	5
“Gruelling to read”: Swedish university students’ perceptions of and attitudes towards academic reading in English	5
JEAP - BALEAP News	5
A comparative multi-dimensional analysis of economics and marketing research articles	5
Translanguaging pedagogies: Using an action research approach to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in a first-year undergraduate anatomy course.	5
EFL student engagement with giving peer feedback in academic writing: A longitudinal study	5
Bundles to beat the band in high-stakes tests: Pedagogical applications of an exploratory investigation of lexical bundles across band scores of the IELTS writing component	5
From hedging to self-mention: Seventy years of stance in doctoral theses and what it means for EAP	5
Exploring generative AI assisted-EFL academic writing: An activity theory perspective	5
Past and future events and projects for BALEAP assessment and testing	5
An exploratory study of English as a Second Language students’ “citation” patterns in multimodal writing	4
The nonuse of the definite article the in referencing definite nouns in research writing: An empirical study using both corpus and survey data and its implications	4
Student question types and subject-position pronominal choices: An exploratory frequency-based comparison of interactive vs. monologic academic lectures	4
Lexical complexity changes in 100 years’ academic writing: Evidence from Nature Biology Letters	4
Editorial Board	4
A cross-disciplinary study of authorial identity construction through ‘reader engagement’ in the introduction of research articles	4
Informality features in AI-generated academic writing: A corpus-based comparison between human and AI	4
Establishing an institutional EAP teacher development scheme based on BALEAP's competency framework: A critical review of the competencies	4
A comparative study of research questions written by L1 English authors and Chinese EFL scholars	4
GenAI! GenAI? GenAI...	4
Increasing critical language awareness through translingual practices in academic writing	4
Analyzing engagement strategies in argument chain: A comparison between high- and low-scoring EFL undergraduate argumentative essays	4
“Contrary to findings from previous studies …”: Paradigmatic and ethnolinguistic influences on disagreement negotiation in research article discussions	4
BALEAP news for JEAP Jan 2026	4

Book review	4
“This study is not without its limitations”: Acknowledging limitations and recommending future research in applied linguistics research articles	4
Examining teacher-written conference abstracts: Rhetorical functions and syntactic complexity features	4
Using a logic model to evaluate rater training for EAP writing assessment	4
Editorial Board	4
Multilingual doctoral students' lived experiences of genre knowledge development through social interactions: Learning writing ‘styles’ and ‘thought processes’	4
Evaluating English-medium instruction in higher education: EMI-QE	4
Book review	4
Syntactic complexity in knowledge construction across disciplines: Evidence from dependency distance	3
AI-generated feedback in an EAP writing classroom: The collaborative process of feedback, uptake, and revision quality	3
How English academic writing textbooks written by Chinese EFL teachers address the issue of plagiarism	3
A FrameNet-based comparative analysis of interest markers in PhD theses by native and non-native English-speaking doctoral writers	3
Forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups	3
From English to ESAP: Probing the boundary-crossing experience of a language teacher in a Chinese university	3
Supporting international graduate students’ academic language and literacies development through online and hybrid communities of practice	3
The effect of intralingual live subtitling on students’ performance and perception in EMI lectures in Flanders: A pilot study	3
To what extent do L2 learners produce genre-appropriate language? A comparative analysis of lexical bundles in argumentative essays and speeches	3
Language matters in EMI: Language related episodes in nursing PBL classrooms	3
Writing a successful applied linguistics conference abstract: The relationship between stylistic and linguistic features and raters’ evaluations	3
Podcasting science: Rhetorical moves and interactional metadiscourse in the Nature Podcast	3
Editorial Board	3
Investigating L2 motivation among Chinese PhD students in an EAP course from a positive psychology perspective	3
Editorial Board	3
Doctoral student’s strategy use in GAI chatbot-assisted L2 writing: An activity theory perspective	3
Mapping cohesion in research articles of applied linguistics: A close look at rhetorical sections	3
Syntactic complexity features of science research article introductions: Rhetorical-functional and disciplinary variation perspectives	3
Empowering learners to invest in imagined and EAP identities to claim as legitimate English users: A multiple-case study	3
From scroll to screen: Cultivating critical digital literacy through algorithm-aware writing pedagogies in EAP	3
Into the eye of the beholder: The BALEAP TEAP scheme as a case study of lesson observation from the observer's perspective	3
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet TELSIG, the Technology Enhanced Learning SIG	3
Writer responsibility across sections of research articles: Recycling of directional determinants by English and Iranian academics	3
‘Don't become so much high sounding’: Power dynamics in master's thesis viva	3
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet EAP for Social Justice SIG	3
Interactional voice construction in academic research articles across disciplines and part-genres	3
Recontextualisation of SFL Appraisal analysis in the teaching of doctoral conclusion writing: The role of Attitude and Graduation in positively evaluating research contribution	3
Unpacking EFL learners’ emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in digital collaborative academic reading projects: An integrated approach of vignette methodology and interview analysis	3
A diachronic study of authorial stance in the discussion of Chinese MA theses and published research articles	3
Tracing development: Feedback orientations and knowledge construction in master's theses	3
Book review	3
Transfer-promoting activities for EAP teaching	3
Book review	3
Book review	3
Book review	2
Noun phrase complexity in English integrated writing placement test responses	2
Tension and resolution: A conceptual model for L2 plagiarism	2
A rhetorical move-step analysis of graphical abstracts in experimental research articles	2
Book review	2
Book review	2
Towards a digital bilingualism? Students’ use of machine translation in international higher education	2
Tracking the changing patterns of graphic data commentary in economics research articles over time: A local grammar study	2
Exploring the differences in syntactic complexity between lay summaries and abstracts: A case study of The New England Journal of Medicine	2
“These are my ‘selling points’”: Disciplinary variation in rhetorical features of graduate school statements of purpose	2
A cluster analysis of interactional metadiscourse in research articles	2
EAP corrective feedback in an EMI setting: Student and teacher beliefs	2
Discourse acts, local grammars, and constructions in academic writing: The case of ‘exemplifying’ construction network	2
Radical cures for author self-citation gaming	2
A scaffolded speaking and writing ELP course for commercial lawyers: An action research case study from an undergraduate law school in Istanbul	2
The different ways to write publishable research articles: Using cluster analysis to uncover patterns of APPRAISAL in discussions across disciplines	2
Book review	2
“Such comparison fails to …”: The neglected open-ended negatives in the literature review section of social science research articles	2
A triadic discourse-identity-affordance framework for scaffolding the development of research discourse competence	2
BALEAP News – Conference time!	2
AI-driven sentiment analysis for mitigating foreign language anxiety (FLA) in EAP: A proof-of-concept study	2
Exploring undergraduate students’ synthesis writing strategies and perceptions in a GenAI-supported literature review task	2
Evaluating the effect of teacher written feedback on developing Chinese L2 graduate students’ paraphrasing performance	2
The use of the passive voice in science students’ writing	2
A local grammar of citation in translation studies: Patterns, functions, and pedagogical implications	2
Exemplification and its local grammar patterns in English as an academic lingua franca in research writing	2
Exemplification and reformulation in expert linguists’ writings: Elaborative metadiscourse between disciplinarity and individuality	2
Differences between novice and experienced academics in their engagement with audience members in conference Q&A sessions	2
Book review	2
Comparing monomodal traditional writing and digital multimodal composing in EAP classrooms: Linguistic performance and writing development	2
Teaching EAP for the digital age: practitioner voices from a pre-sessional programme	2
A phraseological study of highlighting strategies in novice and expert writing	2
Integrating computational thinking into problem-based learning in EAP writing: Effects on motivation and writing performance	2
Digital educational escape rooms: Gamifying English Linguistics at University level: A case study to enhance EAP skills	2
Writing with a persuasive ‘Punch’: Students' perceptions of a computer-assisted SFL-informed EAP intervention for undergraduate social sciences students	2