Tranferable Skills: Promoting Student Research  

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Currie, Pat

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 4 (1999), page 329-346.
Fulltext: 18_04_Currie.pdf (332.64KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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One topic of ongoing debate among EAP teachers and researchers is the issue of skills transferable from EAP classes to academic content classes. Research has already identified several promising avenues for exploration: the analysis of article introductions (Swales, 1984, 1987), the development of question-posing skills (McKenna, 1987), the identification of the conceptual activities required in order to write (Currie, 1993), and the use of academic journalogs as vehicles for ethnographic exploration (Johns, 1990). The issue is complicated, however, by the fact that our EAP classes are frequently composed of students representing diverse content areas. While this diversity can be regarded as imposing even more unrealistic demands on teachers already uncomfortable with knowing less than their students, it can also be viewed as a rich, multi-faceted resource. What we need are ways to exploit it to our advantage. This paper describes three activities that formed part of an action research project carried out in advanced EAP classes. The paper outlines the activities, presents samples of student responses, and evaluates the usefulness of academic journalogs as used in these classes.

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