A strategic, process-oriented approach for an ESP reading course in the humanities
- Autores: María Longhini, Graciela Placci
- Localización: Elia: Estudios de lingüística inglesa aplicada, ISSN 1576-5059, Nº. 4, 2003, págs. 201-218
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper aims at describing pedagogical materials especially designed for an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course for uadergraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences (mainly majoring in Educatioa, History, and Geography) at a national public university in Argentina. It expands on the nationale behind the methodology and its practical application. The lessons in the manual seek to transfer to practical applicatioa thearies based on the latest findings in reading, cagnotive psychology and educacional psycchology. The contnibution of the learner's systemic knowledge, exploited in cross-reference with their schematic knoledge, plus the application of metacognitive and monitoring strategies have been our guidelines for the desig of the activities. Since our maind aim is to facilitate the learners' interpretatioa of texts while simultaneously improving their language skills, we base our approaches on systemic functional grammar. Each lesson we teach addresses questions aimed at unveiling the ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings of the reading texts that we use as didactic units.
