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[0] English for academic purposes [1] Community of ‘colleagues’ across the country is very helpful and supportive Still exists – please see what I dislike [2] Driven by the love of money (we must have more international fees or you’re out) Subject under threat of dissolution from above, creating outsourced work instead, using agencies / businesses that treat English as a business [3] 
What seems like an unpleasant pressure can be turned in some way to an advantage rather than simply resisted I can use debates with my students as a format for dealing with topics that my subject otherwise avoids (because too controversial)
2009 Steps shaping my discipline
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