Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of English for Academic Purposes is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review50
Epistemic verb complementation in research articles: A corpus-based approach to the verb suggest in two disciplines48
English reading expectations in Swedish higher education44
Students’ self-determination in using machine translation and generative AI tools for English for academic purposes39
Generative AI in dissertation writing: L2 doctoral students’ self-reported use, AI-giarism, and perceived training needs39
De-mystifying the nimbus of research: re-igniting practitioners' interest in exploring EAP36
A multimodal analysis of pair work engagement episodes: Implications for EMI lecturer training35
The impact of input format on written performance in a listening-into-writing assessment31
Evolving themes and trends in business English research: A bibliometric analysis (1990-2024)31
Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom30
Using AI-driven interventions in EAP classes: a mixed-method study on motivation and learning outcomes29
“In the present study”: An exploration of prepositional phrase-frames in Chinese EFL learners’ theses and dissertations of applied linguistics29
The influences of international master's students' feedback seeking behaviour on their feedback literacy and feedback contexts: An ecological perspective28
Editorial Board28
Storytelling in L2 English-medium engineering lectures: A typology25
Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics25
An investigation into the missions and practices of glocal writing centers in the Chinese context: ERPP and EAP-EGP hybrid approaches25
Economies of academic writing for multilingual international students24
The need for English language development in anglophone higher education settings: A case study from Australia24
Integrative genre-based pedagogy: Enhancing social responsiveness in English medium of instruction and STEM education24
Using legitimation code theory to investigate English medium lecturers’ knowledge-building practices22
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 perspectives22
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship22
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG21
Human-AI collaborative reading in academic contexts: An exploratory case study20
Promoting research: Academic hypes embedded in the rhetorical move structure of sociology research article abstracts19
A cross-sectional analysis of negation used in thesis writing by L1 and L2 PhD students19
Smart tools, smarter minds? Learner-AI interaction and AI assistance on critical thinking in EAP contexts19
Developing advanced citation skills: A mixed-methods approach to corpus technology training for novice researchers19
Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher18
Editorial Board18
A Chinese EFL student's strategies in graduation thesis writing: An Activity Theory perspective18
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”: Understanding Chinese returnee scholars’ English collaborative writing experiences in academic publishing18
Book review17
Exploring the technicality of LIQUID metaphorical chunks in business discourse17
Approaching digital genre composing through reflective pedagogical praxis17
Metadiscourse in postgraduate thesis supervisions at UK and Taiwanese universities16
Preparing learners for digitally mediated academic communication: Digital multimodal practice in students’ knowledge dissemination videos16
A systematic analysis of first-person identity roles in agricultural sciences16
Self-regulation and student engagement with feedback: The case of Chinese EFL student writers15
Impacts of AI-enhanced task-based learning on EFL postgraduates’ higher order thinking skills and English academic writing self-efficacy14
Tackling illegitimate intertextuality through socialization - An action research project14
‘The goal of this study is to assess …’: a local grammar of purpose statements in Applied Linguistics research article abstracts14
Writers' communicative resources for comparing present and past research findings: A pedagogically motivated inquiry into scientists' rhetorical practices13
Introduction to the special issue: Action research in english language and communication contexts in higher education13
Personal learning environment-supported group academic writing: Chinese postgraduates' experiences and evaluation12
Move-stance connection in Chinese and English research article conclusion sections: A cross-linguistic study12
BALEAP news – Looking back, looking forward …12
The transition of EAP practitioners into scholarship writing12
Saying verbs in applied linguistics research articles: At the interface of reportage and evaluation12
BALEAP News12
Seeking research funding in a peripheral context: A learner corpus genre study of grant proposal summaries11
Integrating a diachronic perspective into the teaching of academic discourse acts: A case study of graphic data commentary11
Editorial Board11
Book review11
Pre-admission EAP course completion as evidence of English language proficiency for university admission: A longitudinal evaluation study11
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs – Law11
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG11
Editor's Note11
Book Review11
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 abstracts10
Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT for rhetorical move-step analysis: The impact of prompt refinement, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning10
Towards an understanding of EMI teacher expertise in higher education: An intrinsic case study10
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines10
Authorial voice in source-based and opinion-based argumentative writing: Patterns of voice across task types and proficiency levels10
A corpus-based analysis of discourse strategy use by English-Medium Instruction university lecturers in Turkey10
A multi-faceted evaluation of the impact on students of an Australian university-wide academic language development program10
Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development9
Multilevel engagement in academic L2 reading: Developing and validating a scale9
Supporting genre-based writing instruction in EAP with a blended collaborative learning environment: A case study of a graduate-level EFL academic writing course9
Writing book reviews: Perceptions and experiences of Chinese novice scholars9
Language-related perceptions: How do they predict student satisfaction with a partial English Medium Instruction in Higher Education?9
Effectiveness of student academic presentations: What do we learn from presentation guidebooks?9
Editorial Board9
Discussing limitations in disciplinary writing: Self-reported limitations and self-justifications9
Bridging EAP and EMI: Professional development for EAP teachers in Chinese higher education8
Exploration of value arguments in applied linguistics research articles8
Recurrent patterns, disciplinary variations: How academics construct professional identities through evaluative language8
Book review8
Understanding the collaborative assessment identity of English for academic purposes practitioners in higher education8
Diachronic changes in the syntactic complexity of emerging Chinese international publication writers’ research article introductions: A rhetorical strategic perspective8
‘X can be classified into … ’: A local grammar of classification in academic discourse and its implications for EAP pedagogy8
Citation practices in applied linguistics: A comparative study of Korean master's theses and research articles8
Notetaking as validity evidence: A mixed-methods investigation of question preview in EAP listening assessment8
Book review8
Editorial Board8
Disciplinary variation of metadiscourse: A comparison of human-written and ChatGPT-generated English research article abstracts8
Book review8
Assessing the impact of pre-lecture reading compliance on lecture comprehension in English-medium instruction courses8
Book review7
Learner-centered EAP practices: Managing agenda in tutorial interaction7
Microaggressions to microaffirmations: A trioethnography of plurilingual EAP instructors7
Editorial Board7
Negotiating the path to publication: Functional units and lexical bundles in author responses to peer review7
A specialized vocabulary list from an original corpus of digital science resources for middle school learners7
What can be done to make peer review a more sustainable practice?7
“It's complicated and nuanced”: Teaching genre awareness in English for general academic purposes7
Utilization of appraisal resources for acknowledging limitations within doctoral theses across disciplines7
GPT as book reviewer: A move and syntactic complexity analysis of GPT-generated versus scholar-written academic book reviews6
Investigating student difficulties in English-medium secondary classes: A functional linguist and a science educator in collaboration6
Changing patterns of the grammatical stance devices in medical research articles (1970–2020)6
Using the knowledge and expertise of English language specialists to enhance L1 English speaking lecturers’ lectures: A professional development project6
Investigating verbal-visual mode interaction in medical audio-slide presentations6
The dynamics of building academic writing knowledge in interaction6
Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context6
“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 dispositions6
Corrigendum to “The expression of obligation in student academic writing” [Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2020), (44), 100840]6
The unveiling diachronic changes in interactive metadiscourse use in the academic writing of applied linguistics over 45 years6
Revamping an English for specific academic purposes course for problem-based learning: Reflections from course developers6
Inclusive pedagogies and practices of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in higher education (HE): An exploratory survey-based study6
Enhancing multimodal speaking practice with real-time AI avatars: A pedagogical trial in a university English course6
Changing EAP assessment practices in the age of generative artificial intelligence: The case of Scottish higher education institutions6
Editorial Board6
EAP practitioners' assessment behavior: Bringing the hidden-away to light6
Materials for an oral presentations class on gesture: Navigating a visual with your audience6
“We define X as …”: A local grammar of definition in linguistics research articles and its pedagogical value6
Implementing academic reading circles in higher education: Exploring perceptions, motivation and outcomes6
SFL and academic apprenticeship6
Promotion of medical research: Stance in AI-generated and scholar-written highlights6
EFL student engagement with giving peer feedback in academic writing: A longitudinal study5
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 component5
Informal professional learning through collaborative action research: Fostering backstage dialogue among new EAP teachers5
Diachronic change of noun phrase complexity in the IMRD sections of medical research articles (1970–2020)5
A mixed-methods study of strategy use in academic vocabulary learning among first-year undergraduates in Hong Kong5
Exploring PhD students’ utilization of generative AI in academic writing for publication purposes: Insights for EAP5
JEAP - BALEAP News5
Exploring generative AI assisted-EFL academic writing: An activity theory perspective5
Guided and unguided GenAI tasks for learning academic spoken collocations5
Examining AI adoption in English academic writing: Do L2 writing selves, enjoyment, and education level matter?5
Book review5
‘Excited to see our latest work published’: Recontextualizing research results in biomedical tweetorials5
Modal density and coherence in science dissemination: Orchestrating multimodal ensembles in online TED talks and youtube science videos5
“Gruelling to read”: Swedish university students’ perceptions of and attitudes towards academic reading in English5
Examining teacher-written conference abstracts: Rhetorical functions and syntactic complexity features4
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 implications4
From hedging to self-mention: Seventy years of stance in doctoral theses and what it means for EAP4
Using a logic model to evaluate rater training for EAP writing assessment4
Analyzing engagement strategies in argument chain: A comparison between high- and low-scoring EFL undergraduate argumentative essays4
Editorial Board4
Book review4
Student question types and subject-position pronominal choices: An exploratory frequency-based comparison of interactive vs. monologic academic lectures4
Past and future events and projects for BALEAP assessment and testing4
Adopting critical-pragmatic pedagogy to address plagiarism in a Chinese context: An action research4
BALEAP News for JEAP May 2025Introducing Hannah Jones, new Chair of BALEAP4
Book review4
Multilingual doctoral students' lived experiences of genre knowledge development through social interactions: Learning writing ‘styles’ and ‘thought processes’4
GenAI! GenAI? GenAI...4
A comparative study of research questions written by L1 English authors and Chinese EFL scholars4
Establishing an institutional EAP teacher development scheme based on BALEAP's competency framework: A critical review of the competencies4
Translanguaging pedagogies: Using an action research approach to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in a first-year undergraduate anatomy course.4
Editorial Board4
“This study is not without its limitations”: Acknowledging limitations and recommending future research in applied linguistics research articles4
Editorial Board4
An exploratory study of English as a Second Language students’ “citation” patterns in multimodal writing4
Lexical complexity changes in 100 years’ academic writing: Evidence from Nature Biology Letters4
“Contrary to findings from previous studies …”: Paradigmatic and ethnolinguistic influences on disagreement negotiation in research article discussions3
Resistance and agency in second language academic discourse socialisation: Undergraduate students’ experiences of an EAP course3
Book review3
Forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups3
‘Don't become so much high sounding’: Power dynamics in master's thesis viva3
BALEAP news for JEAP Jan 20263
Investigating L2 motivation among Chinese PhD students in an EAP course from a positive psychology perspective3
AI-generated feedback in an EAP writing classroom: The collaborative process of feedback, uptake, and revision quality3
Increasing critical language awareness through translingual practices in academic writing3
Syntactic complexity features of science research article introductions: Rhetorical-functional and disciplinary variation perspectives3
Doctoral student’s strategy use in GAI chatbot-assisted L2 writing: An activity theory perspective3
From scroll to screen: Cultivating critical digital literacy through algorithm-aware writing pedagogies in EAP3
Tracing development: Feedback orientations and knowledge construction in master's theses3
From English to ESAP: Probing the boundary-crossing experience of a language teacher in a Chinese university3
Syntactic complexity in knowledge construction across disciplines: Evidence from dependency distance3
Writing a successful applied linguistics conference abstract: The relationship between stylistic and linguistic features and raters’ evaluations3
Supporting international graduate students’ academic language and literacies development through online and hybrid communities of practice3
Empowering learners to invest in imagined and EAP identities to claim as legitimate English users: A multiple-case study3
Unpacking EFL learners’ emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in digital collaborative academic reading projects: An integrated approach of vignette methodology and interview analysis3
A cross-disciplinary study of authorial identity construction through ‘reader engagement’ in the introduction of research articles3
Podcasting science: Rhetorical moves and interactional metadiscourse in the Nature Podcast3
A diachronic study of authorial stance in the discussion of Chinese MA theses and published research articles3
Mapping cohesion in research articles of applied linguistics: A close look at rhetorical sections3
A FrameNet-based comparative analysis of interest markers in PhD theses by native and non-native English-speaking doctoral writers3
Informality features in AI-generated academic writing: A corpus-based comparison between human and AI3
Book review3
To what extent do L2 learners produce genre-appropriate language? A comparative analysis of lexical bundles in argumentative essays and speeches3
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet TELSIG, the Technology Enhanced Learning SIG3
How English academic writing textbooks written by Chinese EFL teachers address the issue of plagiarism3
Into the eye of the beholder: The BALEAP TEAP scheme as a case study of lesson observation from the observer's perspective3
Evaluating English-medium instruction in higher education: EMI-QE3
Language matters in EMI: Language related episodes in nursing PBL classrooms3
Writer responsibility across sections of research articles: Recycling of directional determinants by English and Iranian academics2
Noun phrase complexity in English integrated writing placement test responses2
Discourse acts, local grammars, and constructions in academic writing: The case of ‘exemplifying’ construction network2
Book review2
Comparing monomodal traditional writing and digital multimodal composing in EAP classrooms: Linguistic performance and writing development2
A phraseological study of highlighting strategies in novice and expert writing2
Radical cures for author self-citation gaming2
The effect of intralingual live subtitling on students’ performance and perception in EMI lectures in Flanders: A pilot study2
Book review2
Book review2
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet EAP for Social Justice SIG2
Editorial Board2
EAP corrective feedback in an EMI setting: Student and teacher beliefs2
“Such comparison fails to …”: The neglected open-ended negatives in the literature review section of social science research articles2
Book review2
Integrating computational thinking into problem-based learning in EAP writing: Effects on motivation and writing performance2
Exemplification and reformulation in expert linguists’ writings: Elaborative metadiscourse between disciplinarity and individuality2
BALEAP News – Conference time!2
“These are my ‘selling points’”: Disciplinary variation in rhetorical features of graduate school statements of purpose2
Tracking the changing patterns of graphic data commentary in economics research articles over time: A local grammar study2
The use of the passive voice in science students’ writing2
Editorial Board2
Transfer-promoting activities for EAP teaching2
Exploring the differences in syntactic complexity between lay summaries and abstracts: A case study of The New England Journal of Medicine2
Book review2
Towards a digital bilingualism? Students’ use of machine translation in international higher education2
A scaffolded speaking and writing ELP course for commercial lawyers: An action research case study from an undergraduate law school in Istanbul2
Tension and resolution: A conceptual model for L2 plagiarism2
AI-driven sentiment analysis for mitigating foreign language anxiety (FLA) in EAP: A proof-of-concept study2
Evaluating the effect of teacher written feedback on developing Chinese L2 graduate students’ paraphrasing performance2
Exemplification and its local grammar patterns in English as an academic lingua franca in research writing2
Book review2
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