Individual Activity

Teaching English for Specific Purposes

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2015-2

Presented by: Byron Marmolejo Daz

1.113.629.058

Tutor: Adriana Ivonne Aguirre

National Open and Distance University

School of Educational Sciences ECEDU
B.A in English as Foreign language

Palmira
November 15th 2015

Academic Reading Strategies

Academic Reading is a fundamental characteristic of the target academic situation in

which students are typically reading books and journals, noting, summarizing,
paraphrasing, and then writing essays, etc. Although the focus may be on various
reading strategies and comprehension practice, the resultant exercises usually involve
writing. Reading for academic purposes is a multifaceted subject. However, there is one
fundamental aspect which can be the starting point for other considerations. In the
process of reading, students will be concerned with the subject content of what they
read and the language in which it is expressed. Depending on the reading purpose,
different reading strategies and skills will be involved; in turn, the skills can be divided
into sub-skills. Sometimes the skills are taken separately, or in combination, and used as
the focus for the unit or exercise, but more frequently they are integrated within units in
the form of activities/tasks/ problem-solving, which are topic-or content-based. (Jordan,
1997)
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EI n x tet e n s i v e r e a d i n g

References

Jordan, R. (1997). Academic Reading . En R. Jordan, English For Academic Purposes

(pg. 143). Cambridge: Cambrigde University Press.