CHAPTER 3
Redesigning English Curriculum and Pedagogy for Higher Education
This chapter argues that English literacy — the ability to read and write in English — is not a generalized set of language skills but involves the use of contextualized language. Based on a discussion of how language use varies across different academic disciplines, the chapter describes a new curriculum framework that dovetails with a functional view of language and a pedagogical approach that promotes language learning and literacy development in the process of building content knowledge.