This paper critically examines the varied approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). ... True critical pedagogy thus begins to take on a 'political agenda' (Weimer: 2009), rendering EAP instruction far too complicated and too far fetched from its actual purpose; giving students the skills to develop their use of English language in their university studies. ... By the same token they profess that students should be free 'to question and shape the education they are being offered'. ... I am a Science student, entering my second year of university study in...

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