Student Collaboration in English for Academic Purposes - Theory, Practitioner Perceptions and Reality

This paper considers the notion of collaboration in an EAP context with particular reference to how this
concept is understood by practitioners. The results of their survey of over sixty teachers and staff show that there is a continuum of views as to what collaboration is seen to be and the views often differ from those found in the literature. It proposes a working definition of collaborative assignments in EAP that can help future design and assessment approaches.