Exploring patterns: how to teach when the signals seem to be missing?

Authors

  • Alicia Pérez de Pereyra Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
  • Beatriz Aguilar de Espinosa Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
  • Cecilia Tossi Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Keywords:

clause relations, problem-solution pattern, reading comprehension, ESP

Abstract

This paper presents the sequence of activities prepared to guide undergraduate students of ESP courses of the Schools of Agricultural Sciences of the Argentine National Universities of Córdoba, Catamarca and Villa María in the recognition of the Problem-Solution pattern in scientific texts of the agricultural domain. The ultimate goal is to find the best possible techniques to help non-native students of English and researchers discover the pattern in an attempt to add a new perspective to reading specialized text, i.e. a clause-relational perspective. Further research in this area will be carried out in the next three years.

Author Biographies

Alicia Pérez de Pereyra, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Alicia Inés Pérez de Pereyra is Professor of English as a Foreign Language specialized in ESP who has taught ESP graduate and undergraduate courses at Cordoba National University and published a number of articles on FLT. She has co-authored two bilingual technical dictionaries and three Reading Comprehension Distance Courses. She is currently researching clause relational patterns.

Beatriz Aguilar de Espinosa, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Beatriz Aguilar de Espinosa is Professor of English as a Foreign Language specialized in ESP who has taught ESP graduate and undergraduate courses at Cordoba National University and published a number of articles on FLT. She has co-authored two bilingual technical dictionaries and three Reading Comprehension Distance Courses. She is currently researching clause relational patterns.

Cecilia Tossi, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Cecilia Andrea Tossi holds a Public Translator’s degree. She is at present a regular member of the staff at the Language Laboratory at the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias (U.N.C.)

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Issue

Vol. 29 No. 2 (2008)

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Papers

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