Collaboration is one of the 21st century skills identified by Partnership for 21st Century Learning (2016; now known as Battelle for Kids), and collaborative assignments feature in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across disciplines, e.g., social psychology (Johnston & Miles, 2004), law (Berry, 2007), occupational therapy (Plastow, Spiliotopoulou & Prior, 2010), and accounting (Gammie & Matson, 2007). While research has been carried out on collaboration in English language teaching, less has been done in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) specifically. Since EAP plays a role in helping students develop the ‘language and associated practices’ they will need in their studies (Gillett, 2011, it is important that EAP prepares students for collaboration.