Language for Specific Purposes: A Course Design for PROGEST/CEFET-MG

Authors

  • Kellen S. Batista Marques CEFET-MG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
  • Maria Inês Garíglio CEFET-MG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Keywords:

Qualification, Civil Construction, reading, literacy

Abstract

This paper reports a course design based upon the language for specific purpose approach in CEFET-MG, for the Programa de Capacitação em Gestão de Obras - PROGEST (Program of Study in Engineering, Society and Technology). It is related to the subject matter Language for Professional Purposes, which provides space for discussion about the use and the importance of language and its variations. Its objective is to demonstrate the interaction between the diverse uses of the language, prioritizing the working environment of the professional pupils enrolled in the course. So, the target public profile, its work market - the Civil Construction, the demanded qualification as well as the influence of reading abilities and literacy on the social-communicational contract expected in such environment are discussed.

Author Biographies

Kellen S. Batista Marques, CEFET-MG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Kellen S. B. Marques, student of Engineering of Civil Production at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais and Languages at Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte. She is a research of the Laboratory of Research on Reading and Cognition (LPLC) and of the Program of Study in Engineering, Society and Technology (PROGEST).

Maria Inês Garíglio, CEFET-MG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Maria Inês Gariglio, MSc on Educational Technology, teaches at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnologica de Minas Gerais. She is the cofounder of the Laboratory of Research on Reading and Cognition.

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Vol. 29 (2008): Especial

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