Acquiring scientific literacy through content and genre: a theme-based language course for science students  

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Parkinson, Jean

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 4 (2000), page 369-388.
Fulltext: 19_04_Parkinson.pdf (555.88KB)

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

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This article describes a theme-based language course for science students at a South African university. It suggests that acquisition of language for science and technology should be regarded as acquisition of a range of literacies of science rather than acquisition of skills or grammatical features. Outlining the ways in which language in science is significantly different from everyday language in terms of grammatical features, and in terms of frequency of genre, the author argues that a high degree of embedding of the course in the content of science is necessary. Such embedding needs to be more radical than use of science content for grammar exercises or skills tasks. It needs to involve the learning of science content, and opportunities to acquire important genres in science. The article indicates how the range of literacies considered to be part of scientific language have been embedded in the theme-based course taught by the author. Four uses of themes are described, differing in the extent to which they involve manipulation of real data. The written and oral texts produced by students as a .result of. these themes are a selection of genres which are important for science students both at university and beyond. Extracts from some of the written texts produced by students are discussed with a view to demonstrating how target literacies and genres are embedded in content.

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