الفهرس 
The Impact of genre-based English for academic purposes approach on the research writing competence of Egyptian scholars
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Abstract
The main objective of this study was to design a GB EAP course that meets the needs of
postgraduate students in departments other than the English Department in the Faculty of Arts,
Cairo University to help them write research in English effectively. To enable this objective, the
first aim was to assess their EAP needs, and the second was to design and assess the course. The
study used the mixed method as it combined both qualitative and quantitative methodologies by
means of interviews, and surveys to serve the first aim of the study, and a quasi-experimental
group pretest-posttest design, and a questionnaire to serve the second aim. Upon analyzing the
data gathered from the needs assessment, it was discovered that both groups of participants,
teachers, and students, believed that there is a need to increase general English, and EAP courses
in the under- and postgraduate levels. Both groups of teachers expressed their disappointment at
the students’ current proficiency level and the fact that there has been no announced systematic
pedagogical plan for teaching EAP. The quasi-experiment conducted in the second phase of the
study showed that the GB EAP course following the ESP school and, the SOLO taxonomy was
generally beneficial in improving the participants’ academic genre awareness. The findings
suggest that starting with familiar text types and focusing on the lexico-grammatical features of
the target genres should precede teaching genre types, especially with learners with unadvanced
proficiency levels.