**4. Perquisites of EAP teacher education**

Tardy [21] argued that EAP teacher education is likely to have certain theoretical implications in various academic settings. As he explained, effective EAP teacher education courses heighten the pre-service and in-service EAP teachers' awareness of the research methodology of this field and exhort them to conduct action research on the various aspects of EAP in their classes. Likewise, Pérez-Llantada and Swales [44] pointed out that the EAP teachers' cognizance of the consequential role of research in their field is likely to prompt them to extend its boundaries by developing effective EAP instruments. As they explained, EAP teachers may focus on their peers and develop instruments for assessing their individual factors including their motivation, attitudes, and beliefs among others. Moreover, they can focus on different disciples and develop certain instruments such as objective grading frameworks to evaluate the EAP learners' skills in the language tasks of their pertinent disciples.

Moreover, Iranmehr et al. [50] stated that effective teacher education courses might have specific practical implications in both second and foreign language learning contexts. According to them, the preponderance of EAP teachers teach both EAP and EFL courses and are not able to focus on their EAP classes in a satisfactory way. As they explained, effective EAP teacher education courses are likely to encourage these teachers to develop critical expertise in the teaching of EAP courses and to perform the role of EAP teacher educators over the course of time. Finally, as Basturkmen, and Bocanegra-Valle [39] noted, effective EAP teachers education courses make the EAP teachers cognizant of the consequential role of EAP materials and exhort them to evaluate the current martials based on the pertinent criteria in this field of study. According to them, EAP program developers can take advantage of the EAP teachers' feedback to ameliorate the instructional materials of the EAP courses in different language learning contexts.
