The guiding principle behind university writing centres is to focus on the process of writing
rather than the finished product, prioritising higher order concerns related to organisation …

This article reports on recent research which found that academic communication skills are a
problem for a surprisingly large proportion of English-speaking Australian students. Despite …

This chapter discusses the dynamics of language mixing among Singaporean university
students and how such mixing practices are an integral part of students' linguistic behaviour …

Graduate programmes in most universities are typically oriented towards training students to
master their disciplinary studies and communication skills courses are often offered as add …

Since China's opening to the world in the post-Mao era from the 1980s onwards, the
teaching and learning of English has spread through all levels of education in the People's …

In this chapter, we provide an interim report on the status of English-medium instruction
(EMI) in Singaporean higher education. 1 This is achieved through a review of the current …