Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of English for Academic Purposes is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review54
Stories and scenarios: Lecturers’ use of fantastic hypothetical events54
De-mystifying the nimbus of research: re-igniting practitioners' interest in exploring EAP38
The impact of input format on written performance in a listening-into-writing assessment35
Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom32
A multimodal analysis of pair work engagement episodes: Implications for EMI lecturer training26
Profiling figure legends in scientific research articles: A corpus-driven approach26
“Now I hear what you say” - How short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies25
Effects of explicit instruction on noun phrase production in L2 undergraduate writing25
Development of syntactic complexity in Chinese university students’ L2 argumentative writing23
Showing as sense-making in oral presentations: The speech-gesture-slide interplay in TED talks by Professor Brian Cox22
Integrative genre-based pedagogy: Enhancing social responsiveness in English medium of instruction and STEM education22
Book review21
BALEAP News October for November 202120
Editorial Board19
Editorial Board18
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship17
“In the present study”: An exploration of prepositional phrase-frames in Chinese EFL learners’ theses and dissertations of applied linguistics16
The influences of international master's students' feedback seeking behaviour on their feedback literacy and feedback contexts: An ecological perspective16
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 perspectives15
Harnessing learner research agendas to continuously explore EAP learners’ needs15
Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics15
An investigation into the missions and practices of glocal writing centers in the Chinese context: ERPP and EAP-EGP hybrid approaches15
Using legitimation code theory to investigate English medium lecturers’ knowledge-building practices14
Applying local grammars in EAP teaching14
Developing advanced citation skills: A mixed-methods approach to corpus technology training for novice researchers14
Storytelling in L2 English-medium engineering lectures: A typology14
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”: Understanding Chinese returnee scholars’ English collaborative writing experiences in academic publishing14
The need for English language development in anglophone higher education settings: A case study from Australia14
A cross-sectional analysis of negation used in thesis writing by L1 and L2 PhD students14
Editorial Board13
Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher13
A Chinese EFL student's strategies in graduation thesis writing: An Activity Theory perspective13
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG13
Exploring the technicality of LIQUID metaphorical chunks in business discourse12
Examining the effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback on L2 EAP students’ linguistic performance: A mixed-methods study12
Editorial Board12
BALEAP News12
A systematic analysis of first-person identity roles in agricultural sciences11
Approaching digital genre composing through reflective pedagogical praxis11
Book review11
Book review11
Preparing learners for digitally mediated academic communication: Digital multimodal practice in students’ knowledge dissemination videos11
From abstracts to “60-second science” podcasts: Reformulation of scientific discourse11
Self-regulation and student engagement with feedback: The case of Chinese EFL student writers11
Is core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Single-word vs multi-word uses of thing10
What is complexity? Grammatical issues in assignment prompts10
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines10
The transition of EAP practitioners into scholarship writing10
Tackling illegitimate intertextuality through socialization - An action research project10
Authorial voice in source-based and opinion-based argumentative writing: Patterns of voice across task types and proficiency levels10
Introduction to the special issue: Action research in english language and communication contexts in higher education10
Transvocal stance in academic translation: A rhetorical analysis of grammatical stance in translated applied linguistics English research article abstracts10
Writers' communicative resources for comparing present and past research findings: A pedagogically motivated inquiry into scientists' rhetorical practices10
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs – Law9
A multi-faceted evaluation of the impact on students of an Australian university-wide academic language development program9
Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: A lexicographic approach9
Editorial Board8
Seeking research funding in a peripheral context: A learner corpus genre study of grant proposal summaries8
A corpus-based analysis of discourse strategy use by English-Medium Instruction university lecturers in Turkey8
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG8
Saying verbs in applied linguistics research articles: At the interface of reportage and evaluation8
Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT for rhetorical move-step analysis: The impact of prompt refinement, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning8
Book review8
Book Review8
BALEAP news – Looking back, looking forward …8
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?8
Towards an understanding of EMI teacher expertise in higher education: An intrinsic case study7
Exploration of value arguments in applied linguistics research articles7
Notetaking as validity evidence: A mixed-methods investigation of question preview in EAP listening assessment7
‘X can be classified into … ’: A local grammar of classification in academic discourse and its implications for EAP pedagogy7
Language-related perceptions: How do they predict student satisfaction with a partial English Medium Instruction in Higher Education?7
Editorial Board7
Assessing the impact of pre-lecture reading compliance on lecture comprehension in English-medium instruction courses7
Effectiveness of student academic presentations: What do we learn from presentation guidebooks?7
Short vs. extended adolescent academic writing: A cross-genre analysis of writing skills in written definitions and persuasive essays7
Discussing limitations in disciplinary writing: Self-reported limitations and self-justifications6
Writing book reviews: Perceptions and experiences of Chinese novice scholars6
Diachronic changes in the syntactic complexity of emerging Chinese international publication writers’ research article introductions: A rhetorical strategic perspective6
Phrasal complexity in English argumentative writing: Variations across Chinese STEM versus English majors' production and EFL textbook essays6
Authorial presence in research article abstracts: A diachronic investigation of the use of first person pronouns6
Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development5
Book review5
What can be done to make peer review a more sustainable practice?5
Utilization of appraisal resources for acknowledging limitations within doctoral theses across disciplines5
Using the knowledge and expertise of English language specialists to enhance L1 English speaking lecturers’ lectures: A professional development project5
Learner-centered EAP practices: Managing agenda in tutorial interaction5
Book review5
Editorial Board5
A specialized vocabulary list from an original corpus of digital science resources for middle school learners5
Revamping an English for specific academic purposes course for problem-based learning: Reflections from course developers5
BALEAP news – June for July5
Microaggressions to microaffirmations: A trioethnography of plurilingual EAP instructors5
Corrigendum to “The expression of obligation in student academic writing” [Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2020), (44), 100840]5
Citation practices in applied linguistics: A comparative study of Korean master's theses and research articles5
Book review5
Book review5
“It's complicated and nuanced”: Teaching genre awareness in English for general academic purposes5
EAP practitioners' assessment behavior: Bringing the hidden-away to light5
Editorial Board5
Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context4
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 component4
Changing patterns of the grammatical stance devices in medical research articles (1970–2020)4
The dynamics of building academic writing knowledge in interaction4
Book review4
“Gruelling to read”: Swedish university students’ perceptions of and attitudes towards academic reading in English4
Transfer of knowledge across genres and media: Investigating L2 learners’ multiple composing practices4
“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 dispositions4
Investigating student difficulties in English-medium secondary classes: A functional linguist and a science educator in collaboration4
“We define X as …”: A local grammar of definition in linguistics research articles and its pedagogical value4
EFL student engagement with giving peer feedback in academic writing: A longitudinal study4
A mixed-methods study of strategy use in academic vocabulary learning among first-year undergraduates in Hong Kong4
Grammatical and functional characteristics of preposition-based phrase frames in English argumentative essays by L1 English and Spanish speakers4
Implementing academic reading circles in higher education: Exploring perceptions, motivation and outcomes4
Materials for an oral presentations class on gesture: Navigating a visual with your audience4
JEAP - BALEAP News3
‘Excited to see our latest work published’: Recontextualizing research results in biomedical tweetorials3
Diachronic change of noun phrase complexity in the IMRD sections of medical research articles (1970–2020)3
Critical review of literature: The case of the news and views genre3
Editorial Board3
Adopting critical-pragmatic pedagogy to address plagiarism in a Chinese context: An action research3
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 implications3
Informal professional learning through collaborative action research: Fostering backstage dialogue among new EAP teachers3
Translanguaging pedagogies: Using an action research approach to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in a first-year undergraduate anatomy course.3
Reconceptualising the notion of finding information: How undergraduate students construct information as they read-to-write in an academic writing class3
Examining teacher-written conference abstracts: Rhetorical functions and syntactic complexity features3
Using a logic model to evaluate rater training for EAP writing assessment3
Establishing an institutional EAP teacher development scheme based on BALEAP's competency framework: A critical review of the competencies3
An exploratory study of English as a Second Language students’ “citation” patterns in multimodal writing3
Modal density and coherence in science dissemination: Orchestrating multimodal ensembles in online TED talks and youtube science videos3
A multi-dimensional analysis of English-medium massive open online courses (MOOCs) video lectures in China3
Past and future events and projects for BALEAP assessment and testing3
Autonomous corpus use by graduate students: A long-term trend study (2009–2017)3
Lexical complexity changes in 100 years’ academic writing: Evidence from Nature Biology Letters3
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical move-steps in research article introductions: Variation among four social science and engineering disciplines3
An Analysis of Citations in Chinese English-major Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations2
Increasing critical language awareness through translingual practices in academic writing2
Book review2
“Contrary to findings from previous studies …”: Paradigmatic and ethnolinguistic influences on disagreement negotiation in research article discussions2
A cross-disciplinary study of authorial identity construction through ‘reader engagement’ in the introduction of research articles2
A multimodal discourse approach to research pitches2
Book review2
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet TELSIG, the Technology Enhanced Learning SIG2
Writing a successful applied linguistics conference abstract: The relationship between stylistic and linguistic features and raters’ evaluations2
Resistance and agency in second language academic discourse socialisation: Undergraduate students’ experiences of an EAP course2
Evaluating English-medium instruction in higher education: EMI-QE2
Editorial Board2
BALEAP News for JEAP May 2025Introducing Hannah Jones, new Chair of BALEAP2
Analyzing engagement strategies in argument chain: A comparison between high- and low-scoring EFL undergraduate argumentative essays2
How English academic writing textbooks written by Chinese EFL teachers address the issue of plagiarism2
Forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups2
“We make the invisible visible”: Investigating and evaluating the one-to-one consultation service at a UK higher education institution2
‘Don't become so much high sounding’: Power dynamics in master's thesis viva2
A diachronic study of authorial stance in the discussion of Chinese MA theses and published research articles2
Editorial Board2
A comparative study of research questions written by L1 English authors and Chinese EFL scholars2
“This study is not without its limitations”: Acknowledging limitations and recommending future research in applied linguistics research articles2
Multilingual doctoral students' lived experiences of genre knowledge development through social interactions: Learning writing ‘styles’ and ‘thought processes’2
Podcasting science: Rhetorical moves and interactional metadiscourse in the Nature Podcast2
Book review2
“I found it very special and interesting”: Evaluative language in Master's thesis defenses in Taiwan universities2
A rhetorical move-step analysis of graphical abstracts in experimental research articles1
Syntactic complexity in learner-generated research paper introductions: Rhetorical functions and level of move/step realization1
“These are my ‘selling points’”: Disciplinary variation in rhetorical features of graduate school statements of purpose1
EAP corrective feedback in an EMI setting: Student and teacher beliefs1
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet EAP for Social Justice SIG1
Teaching lecture comprehension skills through OpenCourseWare video-recorded lectures: A research-informed classroom application1
Noun phrase complexity in English integrated writing placement test responses1
Tracing development: Feedback orientations and knowledge construction in master's theses1
Book review1
Book review1
Towards a digital bilingualism? Students’ use of machine translation in international higher education1
Exemplification and reformulation in expert linguists’ writings: Elaborative metadiscourse between disciplinarity and individuality1
Editorial Board1
Exploring the differences in syntactic complexity between lay summaries and abstracts: A case study of The New England Journal of Medicine1
Stance and engagement in 3MT presentations: How students communicate disciplinary knowledge to a wide audience1
Book review1
Editorial Board1
Writer responsibility across sections of research articles: Recycling of directional determinants by English and Iranian academics1
The effect of intralingual live subtitling on students’ performance and perception in EMI lectures in Flanders: A pilot study1
To what extent do L2 learners produce genre-appropriate language? A comparative analysis of lexical bundles in argumentative essays and speeches1
Unpacking EFL learners’ emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in digital collaborative academic reading projects: An integrated approach of vignette methodology and interview analysis1
“Their encouragement makes me feel more confident”: Exploring peer effects on learner engagement in collaborative reading of academic texts1
Editorial Board1
A scaffolded speaking and writing ELP course for commercial lawyers: An action research case study from an undergraduate law school in Istanbul1
Tracking the changing patterns of graphic data commentary in economics research articles over time: A local grammar study1
Book review1
BALEAP News – Conference time!1
Exemplification and its local grammar patterns in English as an academic lingua franca in research writing1
Book review1
EAP research in BALEAP 1975–2019: Past issues and future directions1
Exemplification in research articles: Structural, semantic and metadiscursive properties across disciplines1
Supporting international graduate students’ academic language and literacies development through online and hybrid communities of practice1
Syntactic complexity features of science research article introductions: Rhetorical-functional and disciplinary variation perspectives1
Mapping cohesion in research articles of applied linguistics: A close look at rhetorical sections1
Comparing monomodal traditional writing and digital multimodal composing in EAP classrooms: Linguistic performance and writing development1
A phraseological study of highlighting strategies in novice and expert writing1
Radical cures for author self-citation gaming1
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