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Using infographics to teach EAP
What is an infographic? That seems like a good question to start today’s post. Put simply, an Infographic (information graphic) is a visual representation of a data set or instructive material. It...
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Infographic: Emphasizing effects
The ability to express cause and effect relationships is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic focuses on the different ways of emphasizing effects. Causality is the relationship between an...
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Infographic: To analyze
Today’s infographic is the first to focus on an item from the Academic Word List (AWL). The verb to analyze is very important in academic language, particularly because it has a number of subtly...
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Infographic: Area
Today’s infographic is my second focusing on an item from the Academic Word List (AWL). The noun area is very important in academic language, particularly because it has a number of subtly different...
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Infographic: Comparative and superlative adjectives
The ability to express similarities and differences between concepts is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic focuses on the some of the most common ways of do this, with comparative and...
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Infographic: British and American English
The ability to use an appropriate academic style is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic shows you a quick overview of the differences in spelling between British and American English. The...
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Infographic: Available
Today’s infographic is the next in my series focusing on an item from the Academic Word List (AWL). The adjective available and the noun availability are very important in academic language,...
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10 online applications for creating infographics
Learners today are incredibly visual. Most would rather look at an image or chart than read an entire article or report. Luckily, there are now ways to fit just as much information into an image as...
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A lesson plan for using infographics in an EAP setting
One of the things I want to promote here on EAP Infographics is getting our learners to visualize data themselves. In learning any language in general – and in academic English in particular – it is...
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Infographic: to approach
Today’s infographic is another in my series focusing on an item from the Academic Word List (AWL). The verb to approach and the noun approach are very important in academic language, particularly...
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Infographic: Reporting what someone wrote
The ability to use an appropriate academic style is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic shows you a quick overview of the conventions of reporting what someone else said and how we...
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Infographic: to assess
Today’s infographic is another in my series focusing on an item from the Academic Word List (AWL). The verb to assess and the noun assessment are very important in academic language, particularly...
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One of the things I want to promote here on EAP Infographics is getting our learners to visualize data themselves. If you’ve gone through the process of introducing the notion of infographics and...
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9 great reasons to use infographics in your EAP classroom
My learners were tired. They didn’t want to do any work. They were visibly slouching down in their seats, losing the battle against sleep, or at least total apathy. I could understand it; these poor...
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Infographic: present perfect continuous tense
The ability to express cause and effect relationships is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic focuses on the ways we can use the present perfect continuous tense to connect past actions...
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Assessing learner infographics: an example rubric
In a recent post I looked at the ways in which we can give feedback on learner-created infographics, suggesting that we do so under these four headings; 1) research and synthesis; 2) respect for...
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Infographic: the grammar of cause and effect
The ability to express cause and effect relationships is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic gives a brief overview of all the language we need to be able to express the connections...
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Teaching academic vocabulary: a guide for beginners
While this is intended as an all-you-need-to-know guide for teachers contemplating teaching academic vocabulary for the first time, I also hope there’s a little bit for everyone in today’s post. For...
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Infographic: the grammar of describing a process
The ability to describe scientific and historic processes is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic gives a brief overview of all the language we need to be able to describe scientific and...
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Infographic: comparative and superlative adjectives
The ability to express similarities and differences between concepts is one of the six tenets of EAP. Today’s infographic focuses on some of the most common ways of do this, with comparative and...
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