Technothrillers and English for science and technology  

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Diaz-Santos, Gilberto

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 3 (2000), page 221-236.
Fulltext: 19_03_Diaz-Santos.pdf (138.83KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/19 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Discussions on pre-historic life, novel techniques for DNA reconstruction, computer algorithms for large-database processing, or applications of chaos theory are topics one would normally find in specialized publications; however, they can appear in contemporary techno thriller stories where adventure and academic seminar are skillfully blended. This article focuses on a particular teaching experience where a contemporary fiction work featuring high-tech has been used as source material in EST courses, and how this approach has had a positive impact on students' motivation to learn English as well as on their overall performance in the foreign language. It is suggested that since the same field of information -in this case science-can be accessed through different genres, EST teachers can incorporate fiction literature into their language programs, and exploit these reading passages through a combination of strategies drawn from literature lessons and tasks from ESP methodology. This choice allows both to attain the goals of EST courses and to initiate students into reading literature in the foreign language.

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