Applying local grammars in EAP teaching

Local grammars have been reported to have the potential to facilitate English language teaching. This study explores this potential by applying local grammars into the teaching of discourse acts that are frequently performed in academic writing. For demonstration, the study focuses on the teaching of one particular discourse act, i.e., exemplification, and argues that the teaching procedure presented in this paper can also be applied to the teaching of other discourse acts in academic writing. The study shows that local grammars can be integrated into classroom activities, which would in turn help improve EFL learners' pragmatic performance in academic writing. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.