English for academic purposes (EAP) has become a major research field in its own right, responding to the demands of a widening circle of users by providing increasingly sophisticated accounts of academic discourse and translating these insights into pedagogically valid methods and materials. The chapter addresses this extensive topic by viewing EAP from three angles, each based on a different approach: corpus-based work, genre analysis, and investigation of the social context. The chapter moves from a narrow-angle to a wide-angle view of EAP. It starts by surveying the contribution of corpora to the detailed description of academic discourse and its pedagogy. The attention then shifts to whole texts and groups of texts examined through the use of genre analysis. Finally, the view widens to consider EAP as constituting a set of social practices within institutional and global contexts.
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