This document outlines the objectives and content for a university course called "Comprehension and Production of Texts in English Language I". The course aims to develop students' academic writing and speaking skills in English, familiarize them with scientific genres, and teach conventions of academic texts. It covers a genre approach to academic writing, the research article format, and abstract writing. The content is divided into four modules addressing the academic discourse community, research articles, move analysis of abstracts, and writing abstracts in English.
This document outlines the objectives and content for a university course called "Comprehension and Production of Texts in English Language I". The course aims to develop students' academic writing and speaking skills in English, familiarize them with scientific genres, and teach conventions of academic texts. It covers a genre approach to academic writing, the research article format, and abstract writing. The content is divided into four modules addressing the academic discourse community, research articles, move analysis of abstracts, and writing abstracts in English.
This document outlines the objectives and content for a university course called "Comprehension and Production of Texts in English Language I". The course aims to develop students' academic writing and speaking skills in English, familiarize them with scientific genres, and teach conventions of academic texts. It covers a genre approach to academic writing, the research article format, and abstract writing. The content is divided into four modules addressing the academic discourse community, research articles, move analysis of abstracts, and writing abstracts in English.
Comprensin y Produccin de Textos en Lengua Inglesa I
OBJETIVOS
Desarrollar la competencia comunicativa acadmica escrita y oral. Conocer las caractersticas especficas de los gneros de la ciencia. Dominar las convenciones encontradas en textos acadmicos. Desarrollar un sentido de la existencia de una comunidad socio-retrica con sus propias reglas y estrategias. Explorar el campo del anlisis del gnero dentro de la escuela de Ingls con Fines Especficos.
CONTENIDOS
Module 1: A Genre Approach to Academic Writing
The academic discourse community and its texts. ESP. Genre in linguistics. Genres and the social forces shaping them. Genre pedagogy. Homely and academic texts. Corpus linguistics. Rhetorical consciousness-raising. Schematic structure/Stages/Moves analysis.
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Module 2:
The role of English in research. The Research Article (RA) in English: its history and construction. Overall organisation. The Abstract as a stand-alone genre. The IMRD structure. Introduction. Methods. Results & Discussion. Linguistic resources for conversing with the scientific/academic community: Titles, politeness strategies, hedging, tense and voice, nominalisation, in-text citations, formulaic language. Citing references in APA style.
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Module 3: The Abstract. Move analysis. Compulsory vs. optional moves. Abstracts in linguistics and other disciplines. Conference abstracts
Bittencourt Dos Santos, Mauro. (1996). The textual organization of research paper abstracts in applied linguistics. Text 16 (4): 481499. Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Swales, J. & Feak, C. (2009). Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts. Michigan, US: University of Michigan Press.
Module 4: The Abstract. Writing abstracts in English. Differences with Spanish resmenes.